It amazes me that a bank does not have a system where access to the building is only allowed from certain times otherwise the alarm would go off. Our building at work is operated on an access card only system with the access times limited by a computer. So even if someone got into the building via a window etc the alarm would just go off. If I went to the building at 7.59 my card will not work I must wait until 8.00.At that time there are many employee already waiting to get in.
You're the only one that's said that on this thread. Certainly I never thought that, but I found it incredible that a single employee was able to remove over seven million in cash from his branch.Are you implying an inside job?
There ERU are the trained professionals after all
From yesterday's Indo, [link to article] -But I'd like to know if senior officals didn't bother to inform the gardai until after it happened.
That would probably help a lot, but I think some sort of procedure also needs to be put in place that no matter what is going on, senior officials cannot (as in "are not able to, even if they wanted to") help out a colleague who has been put in this dreadful position, and that this fact is advertised everywhere.I think the only way things like this will ever be stopped is if the courts start handing down 30 and 40 year sentences.
I cant understand why they put so much money in the bags. Why so much?
I cant understand why they put so much money in the bags. Why so much?
Just one of the many questions. Two main ones being, why were proper procedures not carried out (they are there for everyones safety) and secondly, where did the the gang get its intelligence from? There was inside information passed on and there is no doubt about that.
At a guess, based on the limited info I have read, is that somebody at supervisor level in BoI made a mistake in not notifying his / her superiors and the gardai that a raid was underway - and probably made that mistake under pressure or for what they thought were good reasons.
It is very, very difficult to find a solution to this. Once you have people that can access the money, there is always a way to put pressure on those people.
Timelocks would solve this surely?
I understood that the raiders had photos of the houses of some of the other staff members at the bank, and gave these photos to Travers when he went into the bank. This obviously sends a clear message to the other guys that they will be in trouble if they don't cooperate.
It is very, very difficult to find a solution to this. Once you have people that can access the money, there is always a way to put pressure on those people.
Would you put the tracker in, knowing that they had pictures of your house and family?They should have put a small tracker in some of the money bundles - the sort that are used by wildlife services to track birds etc. These things are so small nowdays that they wouldnt be spotted.
Absolutely agree, if any one of us were to find ourselves in this horrible situation, we do not know how we would respond.Panic and fear can be infectious and reasonable procedures made and agreed in a time of calm can seem completely unreasonable, or forgotten, in a time of crisis.