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| They stay awake to ensure you sleep | |||
| He's surrounded by urban glitz but Raj Kumar says it's pointless when there's no time to check out any of the attractions. "I've been working here for seven years but haven't had a day to spare for the city's beautiful malls and popular hotspots," says Kumar, one among nearly 40,000 private security guards working in Gurgaon. Rapid commercial development in and around the financial hub has created unprecedented demand for security services that can only be catered to by private players. The sector is naturally labour-intensive and the men and women who form its backbone are drawn largely from Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan. Behind their smart appearances are stories of low pay, few employee benefits and 12-hour shifts of drudgery. The bigger the employer, the lesser the concern for human resources, says Surender Singh, owner of a security company, adding that the commercial complexes and gated housing communities which hire guards treat them as dispensable, unskilled labour. They are forced to rely on informal financing and recruitment networks. Everyone comes through a relative or neighbour and even money is remitted home through trusted travellers. "We sleep during the day and work in the night shift, when another group of eight comes and sleeps in the room," says Rajesh Yadav, from Supaul in Bihar. | |||
| Source | 03-Jun-15 | Hindustan Times | Compiled by www.Groupl.in |
| 250 security firms in Chennai may lose licence | |||
| Senior police officers have recommended the cancellation of licences of 250 private security agencies in the state for failing to adhere to norms and not imparting training to the guards they employ. That could mean the shutters for 75 agencies in Chennai and more than 2,000 security guards facing loss of jobs. At least 5,000 guards could lose their livelihood if police close all blacklisted agencies. Tamil Nadu Commando Force commandant and superintendent of police Abhishek Dixit on Wednesday said many agencies did not have even basic training facilities. Police found the owners of some agencies had dubious links and others had submitted fake or non-existent addresses to their jurisdictional police. | |||
| Source | 01-May-15 | The Times of India | Compiled by www.Groupl.in |
| Men guarding ATM kiosks are vulnerable | |||
| Many incidents have been reported in the city since where security guards have been attacked, though this is the first case after November 2013 where a guard has been killed. There have been proposals in the past to arm the security guards with a light firearm. However, they have been shot down by the police for fear of misuse of the weapons. A senior police official said the private security sector was found wanting in professionalism and employs people even without verification or any training most of the times. “We can’t afford to put firearms in their hands,” he argued, and added that there had been many instances where the guards had turned rogue and looted ATM kiosks or cash transfer vehicles. | |||
| Source | 18-May-15 | The Hindu | Compiled by www.Groupl.in |
| Rs. 23 lakh bank heist | |||
| A sum of Rs. 23 lakh was burgled from the Kadur branch of Canara Bank. The burglary came to light on Monday, when the bank officials reported for duty. Preliminary enquiry by the police suggested that the burglars entered the bank by breaking a toilet window. They opened the locker using a drilling machine and took away the cash. It was not clear when the incident occurred, as the bank was closed since Saturday afternoon. The burglars took away the entire cash. However, they could not open another locker, in which gold jewellery worth over Rs. 10 crore was kept. | |||
| Source | 19-May-15 | The Hindu | Compiled by www.Groupl.in |
| Petrol bomb hurled at Andhra bank | |||
| Miscreants hurled a petrol bomb at the Kilpauk branch of Andhra Bank past midnight on Thursday. The attack is suspected to be a response to the death of 20 men from Tamil Nadu in an encounter by the Andhra Pradesh police in Chittoor on April 7. Police said the attack took place minutes past midnight when two men, who had reportedly arrived in a motorcycle, hurled a bottle containing petrol with its wick ablaze. | |||
| Source | 02-May-15 | The Hindu | Compiled by www.Groupl.in |
| Man threatens KFC staffer, robs 1.58 lakh from outlet | |||
| An unidentified man allegedly robbed a Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) outlet on M G Road in Pune Camp of Rs 1.58 lakh, after threatening its manager with a knife and tying his hands and legs with shoelaces around 4am on Saturday. Police are questioning employees of the outlet. KFC area manager Manish, who was also present at the police station, said, "We have installed CCTV cameras and have a cash collecting system. Police has now asked us to appoint a trained security guard to avert similar incidents in future." | |||
| Source | 03-May-15 | The Times of India | Compiled by www.Groupl.in |
| Chandigarh jewellers arm themselves as cops come a cropper | |||
| With the police failing to trace a robber who stormed into a jewellery shop, shot a salesman and robbed 18 gold chains in broad daylight, Sector 22 based jewellers have equipped themselves with firearms. Some of the jewellers said they have lost confidence in local police authorities, who failed to trace the robber despite having clear images of the suspect. | |||
| Source | 04-May-15 | The Times of India | Compiled by www.Groupl.in |
| ATM hacker gang leader apprehended in Agra | |||
| The Gujarat crime branch team on Tuesday raided a five-star hotel in Agra and arrested a hacker accused of hacking hundreds of ATM machines across five states and stealing over Rs. 4.5 crores in the past few months alone. The hacker Sunil Kumar is said to be an original resident of Indore in Madhya Pradesh and operated a gang of 15 hackers out of whom, 9 have been arrested so far, six of whom were arrested in Surat two days back. | |||
| Source | 05-May-15 | India Today | Compiled by www.Groupl.in |
| Futile attempt made to loot ATM | |||
| According to the Bellur police, someone had made a futile attempt at breaking the ATM counter of the State Bank of India as no security guard had been posted there. In the process, the kiosk was damaged with some hard objects. While fingerprint experts collected some prints from the crime scene, the Bellur police began examining the CCTV footage. A case has been registered. | |||
| Source | 06-May-15 | The Hindu | Compiled by www.Groupl.in |
| Woman robbed in City ATM kiosk | |||
| A woman was robbed at knifepoint inside an unguarded ATM kiosk in south Delhi’s Jamia Nagar on Friday. In her statement, Afreen said the men took her ATM card and withdrew Rs 10,000. The incident, which took place at around 7 pm, was caught on CCTV cameras installed in the ATM kiosk. “I was inside the ATM kiosk when the two men entered inside, claiming to be ATM technicians,” Afreen told Deccan Herald. The two men then threatened her, but she resisted their demand to withdraw cash and hand it over to them. They then whipped out a knife and overpowered Afreen. She claimed she was then forced to hand over her ATM card and reveal her PIN. The men withdrew Rs 10,000 within minutes and left without making another transaction. She immediately raised an alarm to draw the attention of the locals, but the two men managed to flee. |
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| Source | 10-May-15 | Deccan Herald | Compiled by www.Groupl.in |
| Guwahati police fail to check ATM break-ins | |||
| Police are struggling to check looting of money from ATMs across the city which has assumed alarming proportions. In the last four months, at least 11 ATMs were reportedly broken and over lakhs of rupees looted by miscreants. Though city police claimed to have beefed up night patrolling, the situation remains unchanged. Finding no other way, police have suggested bank officials to close ATMs without security guards after 10 pm. | |||
| Source | 11-May-15 | The Times of India | Compiled by www.Groupl.in |
| Security association urges govt to set up training academy | |||
| The spokesperson for the Security Association of Goa Ronald Pinto while briefing media said that the SAG has impressed upon the government to provide a training academy for security agencies in the state. Pinto said that the academy will help the youth to secure gainful employment. | |||
| Source | 11-May-15 | Goacom | Compiled by www.Groupl.in |
| ATM thieves snap power after cash withdrawal in Bhopal | |||
| Three conmen from Punjab fraudulently withdrew Rs 1.64 crore from different ATMs across country and tricked banks to refund the sum on pretext that money was debited, but not received after punching the withdrawal request. Unlike ATM robbers who uproot the entire machine with cash and decamp, these thieves were innovative and executed their plan with precision. The gang was busted in the city by Madhya Pradesh police on Tuesday after a tipoff from an alert security guard. One member of the gang would wait outside the ATM while other two would go inside and one of them would withdraw money. No sooner would cash come out, than his accomplice would swiftly snap power supply to the ATM. Power would be suspended immediately after cash withdrawal, but just before balance receipts would slip out. Conmen would then lodge a complaint with bank that money was debited from their account, but they did not receive cash. | |||
| Source | 12-May-15 | The Times of India | Compiled by www.Groupl.in |
| Maharashtra ups Mumbai security; earmarks Rs 900 crore for digital surveillance | |||
| The Maharashtra government has earmarked a buget of Rs 940 crore for a city surveillance project involving 6,400 CCTV cameras, storage and related technologies. The cameras installed at places that are more prone to accidents or criminal incidents (chain-snatching, etc) will have more storage capacity than those at other locations. Overall, the cameras will have a capacity to store videos for 7 to 21 days depending on the vulnerability of the place. The CCTVs will be monitored by all the police stations, the state secretariat at Mantralaya, the Mumbai Port Trust, and the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC). Three command centers will be established the Mumbai Police Commissioner’s Office, the Disaster Recovery Command Centere in Kalina and the traffic police headquarters at Worli. | |||
| Source | 15-May-15 | CIOL | Compiled by www.Groupl.in |
| Mumbai's monorail security bill Rs 76 lakh a month, earnings Rs 45 lakh | |||
| That sleek-looking monorail is proving to be a bit too expensive on the security front. While Rs 76 lakh is spent a month for its security, the average monthly earning estimate is pegged around Rs 45 lakh. Right to Information activist Anil Galgali said that a query sent to Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority, the agency handling the monorail, has revealed that it has to shell out Rs 76 lakh on security personnel provided by Maharashtra State Security Corporation. | |||
| Source | 15-May-15 | The Times of India | Compiled by www.Groupl.in |
| Burglary attempt at [Union] bank | |||
| Unidentified burglars made a futile attempt to loot a bank at Civil Lines but they were unable to break open the safety vault of the strong room. Sitabuldi police have on Friday registered a case of burglary on a complaint lodged by assistant manager of Union Bank of India Amit Deshmukh. | |||
| Source | 16-May-15 | The Times of India | Compiled by www.Groupl.in |
| 15-crore gold robbery case: Nashik cops release images of two suspects | |||
| 20 days after the daring dacoity near Wadivhare in Nashik, in which a gang posing as police officers looted 58 kg of gold biscuits worth Rs 15.6 crores from a logistics van, the police have released a sketch of one of the suspects and an actual photo of the other. The police have launched a massive manhunt for the culprits.According to police, 60 kg of gold worth Rs 16.23 crores belonging to a diamond company was being transported by Sequel Logistics Company, Mumbai, to a refinery in Shirpur, Dhule district, by road on the morning of April 24. When the vehicle reached Wadivhare in Nashik around afternoon, a white Logan car which was chasing it, stopped the vehicle. Five persons posing as policemen said that they suspected that the gold was stolen and demanded that the vehicle be taken to the police station. They beat the people in the vehicle including the driver, the company officials and the security personnel. The gang held them at gun point and tied up their hands and legs. All the men in the vehicle were beaten badly. The robbers then looted the gold in the vehicle and managed to sneak away with 58 gold biscuits each weighing one kg, worth Rs 15.6 crore. They also stole two mobile phones and fled away. | |||
| Source | 16-May-15 | DNA | Compiled by www.Groupl.in |
| 11-kg gold looted from Patiala firm | |||
| Three armed men took away 11-kg gold and Rs 2.5 lakh in cash after holding the staff of a finance company at gunpoint in the Tripuri area this evening. The robbers spent 15 minutes at the office before escaping. The incident occurred around 4.30 pm when masked men arrived at the office of Muthoot Fincorp, a gold financing company, on a scooter. They locked the manager, Darshan Singh, in a washroom and tied two female staff members to their chairs. The suspects then opened the safe with the key kept in the drawer and escaped with gold, valued at Rs 3 crore, along with cash. The suspects sprayed black paint on the CCTV cameras. There was no security guard at the office. | |||
| Source | 17-May-15 | The Tribune | Compiled by www.Groupl.in |
| ATM security guard found murdered | |||
| The guard [Minat] was sleeping inside the ATM centre located on the first floor. He woke up around 3.30 am as he heard someone approaching the kisok. He opened the door and came out. As soon as he stepped out of the ATM centre, the assailant who was standing close to the door, attacked him on the head with an iron rod, said the police. Minat collapsed on the floor due to heavy internal bleeding and fell unconscious. The assailant dragged the body out of the ATM?centre and dumped it on the staircase. He came back after some time and entered the ATM?centre. He attempted to break open the kiosk with a rod. However, he gave up the attempt after a couple of minutes and vanished, said the police. | |||
| Source | 18-May-15 | Deccan Herald | Compiled by www.Groupl.in |
| Woman robbed in ATM at gunpoint | |||
| A woman was robbed of her gold jewellery, cellphone and ATM card by an unidentified person after he terrorised her with a gun inside an ATM in Yosufguda on Wednesday.Around 7.45 am 25-year-old Srilalitha working for a BPO, who stays in a working women’s hostel in Madhura Nagar, went to the State Bank ATM at Yousufguda to withdraw money. The ATM did not have any security guard. The attackerJust as she finished using the machine, a man, with his face covered, accosted her demanding handing over cash and jewellery. When she didn't, he pulled out a gun and fired at the wall. Shocked Srilalitha shared her PIN code with him before he grabbed her gold chain, earrings, mobile phone and her ATM card, and raced away on a two-wheeler. | |||
| Source | 21-May-15 | The Hans India | Compiled by www.Groupl.in |
| Robbery at ATM: Suspect Nabbed in a Day | |||
| Twenty four hours after a woman techie was robbed at gunpoint inside an ATM in Yousufguda, the Task Force sleuths arrested the man responsible for the offence from a hostel in Ameerpet on Thursday. The accused is 21-year-old Pedapally Shiva Kumar Reddy, who hails from Kadapa district. A 9MM country-made pistol, six live rounds, a button knife, five mobile phones, three ATM cards were recovered from him. Though the police are yet to interrogate him thoroughly and will do so after seeking his police custody after being produced in the court, they believe that Reddy was operating alone and was reportedly planning more such offences in the city. | |||
| Source | 22-May-15 | The New Indian Express | Compiled by www.Groupl.in |
| 8 ATMs in Delhi targeted by BBA student in a skimming case caught | |||
| He came, he saw and he skimmed - it summarizes the story of Vinit Yadav, 24, a native of Rewadi, Haryana, who was apprehended by Gandhinagar police for installing skimming devices at a private bank's ATM at Kudasan. On Wednesday, Infocity police had received a complaint from a private firm responsible for handling the cash for the ATMs of a private bank that somebody had attached skimming devices - a micro camera on top of the keypad and a magnetic strip reader on card reader - to steal data of the customers using the ATM. Police had found CCTV footage from the kiosk that showed a youth taking measurements on Monday and attaching the devices on Tuesday. | |||
| Source | 23-May-15 | The Times of India | Compiled by www.Groupl.in |
| Dacoits loot 43L from cash van near Daund | |||
| Eight armed dacoits looted Rs 43 lakh cash from the van of a security firm at Gulunche village in Purandar taluka, around 70km from here, late on Sunday evening. The van was carrying cash from the Bank of Maharashtra here to be loaded in automated teller machines (ATMs) in the district. Surprisingly, none of the four employees in the van were armed. Police said "as the van travelled on the Nira-Morgaon road going to Daund, a car with four men and two motorcycles with another four began following it. At Gulunche village, the car intercepted the van, forcing it to stop. The four men on the bikes got down and threatened the driver and the others in the van with sharp weapons." | |||
| Source | 25-May-15 | The Times of India | Compiled by www.Groupl.in |
| Cops crack down on seven private security agencies | |||
| Seven private security agencies in the city have landed in the police net for operating without the necessary licences. Police have started issuing show-cause notices to the security agencies which have failed to submit the documents required for the licence. Seven private security agencies in the city have landed in the police net for operating without the necessary licences. Police have started issuing show-cause notices to the security agencies which have failed to submit the documents required for the licence. | |||
| Source | 26-May-15 | The Times of India | Compiled by www.Groupl.in |
| Banks gun for better security, cops demur | |||
| As police prevent private security agency guards from carrying weapons, cash vans become easy targets. Now, bank officials are blaming strict laws that disallow guards of private security agencies (PSA) from possessing weapons, even as cops insist that banks cannot have arms licences, reinitiating an old debate in the sector. And, on Tuesday, Pune police also took action against seven PSAs for operation here without valid documents. Joint commissioner of police (Pune city), Sunil Ramanand, only said, "The rules are very clear. PSA guards cannot be issued arms licences, but the organisations (banks) can get retainer licences and have armed guards." | |||
| Source | 27-May-15 | Pune Mirror | Compiled by www.Groupl.in |
| Alert guard puts out fire in GMC ward | |||
| An alert security guard came to the rescue of patients in Goa Medical College (GMC) and Hospital's casualty ward on Wednesday afternoon when he extinguished a fire that broke out in the air-conditioning unit. The indoor split air-conditioning unit located at the entrance of the casualty ward near the registration counter caught fire at around 2pm on Wednesday. Security guard Narayan Gaonkar immediately swung into action and extinguished the fire. | |||
| Source | 28-May-15 | The Times of India | Compiled by www.Groupl.in |
| Attacks on mobile towers: CM orders security, MHA sends | |||
| With militants repeatedly targeting telecom facilities in Kashmir, Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed today directed police to ensure security of cellular towers and those manning them as some employees and franchises have stopped work following attacks and threats. The meeting came a day after militants targeted a mobile phone tower with a grenade in a downtown area of Srinagar, in yet another incident that led to disruption in communication services in the valley. The militants have targeted telecom facilities in north Kashmir over the last 10 days. | |||
| Source | 02-Jun-15 | The Business Standard | Compiled by www.Groupl.in |
| Unidentified miscreants fail to break ATM, case registered | |||
| Unidentified miscreants made an unsuccessful attempt to break an automated teller machine (ATM) of Andhra Bank on the Haryana State Industrial Development Corporation (HSIDC) complex in Ali Pur, Barwala, in the wee hours on Tuesday. According to police, the accused managed to open the lid of the ATM with the iron rods, but could not break the locker. There was no guard at the ATM when the incident took place, and closed-circuit television (CCTV) cameras were also not installed inside the ATM and in the bank. | |||
| Source | 02-Jun-15 | The Hindustan Times | Compiled by www.Groupl.in |
| Cops sleep as robbers lift ATM | |||
| Cops slept through while thieves made away with an ATM containing Rs 15.50 lakh at Sahora village under Sheehshgarh police station on Wednesday night. The ATM, belonging to Bank of Baroda, was kept on the floor instead of being fixed at an appropriate spot in the ATM chamber by bank authorities. Every day, after 10 pm, it was the responsibility of cops at the local police station for ensuring its security. However, at the time the robbers stuck and took away the ATM, the police constable and home guard on duty were reportedly sleeping on the roof of an adjoining house. | |||
| Source | 04-Jun-15 | The Times of India | Compiled by www.Groupl.in |
| Robbers strike at ATM in Batala village, decamp with Rs 4.87 lak | |||
| Robbers broke into an ATM (automated teller machine) of Punjab and Sind Bank at Qila Lal Singh village here late on Wednesday night and stole Rs 4.87 lakh. "The robbers reached the ATM booth at 2.15 am on Wednesday with their face covered with monkey caps. They used a gas-cutter to break open the shutter locks. One of the robbers then entered the booth and sprayed paint on a CCTV camera," said Harpal singh, station house officer at Qila Lal Singh police station. They later broke open the ATM chest and decamped with Rs 4.87 lakh, he said. Locals noticed the broken locks on Thursday morning and alerted branch manager Surinder Kumar Bagga, who informed police. | |||
| Source | 04-Jun-15 | The Hindustan Times | Compiled by www.Groupl.in |
| Spurt in fraud at ATMs keep Srikakulam police on tenterhooks | |||
| With many complaints over poor security at ATMs of various banks in Srikakulam district, many cases of cheating during the transactions reported, the Police Department is on tenterhooks. It is observed that customers, espcially the elders who take help from strangers at ATMs to ensure smooth transaction, are increasingly falling prey to cheating. As many as 19 cheating cases were reported recently in the district. The offenders are easily deceiving the customers by changing the ATM cards. The miscreants who know the PIN number are withdrawing the money later. The police have failed to take lead in many of such cases as many of the ATMs do not have CCTV cameras or many of the available cameras are not in working condition. | |||
| Source | 07-Jun-15 | The Hindu | Compiled by www.Groupl.in |
| Sandalwood logs stolen from Britannia Industries campus | |||
| After a gap of three months, a sandalwood tree in the premises of Britannia Industries on the Old Airport Road was chopped and stolen by a gang of four men amidst tight security in the wee hours of Tuesday. According to the police, the gang came in a car and ventured into the premises of the Company, with four Security Guards on duty, and started chopping the tree. Alerted by the sound of tree being chopped, the Security Guards rushed to the spot. Sensing danger, the four escaped with two sandalwood logs leaving two others behind. | |||
| Source | 10-Jun-15 | The Hindu | Compiled by www.Groupl.in |
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