Rabobank: No plans to close ATMs after explosive robbery attempts
David Hardy
Experienced Managing Director @ Loktec Limited | National Locksmith & Safe Engineers Technical Support
Dutch banking institution Rabobank said it has no plans to dismantle its cash machines on a wide-scale basis after robbers made two separate attempts to use explosives to break into the bank's ATMs early Monday morning. Just last week, police said that other banks' cash machines would be targeted more frequently after ABN Amro decided to remove 470 of its own ATMs across the country.
Robbers tried to bust into a standalone Rabobank ATM on De Eendracht in Tubbergen, Overijssel, police said. They arrived on the scene at about 3:30 a.m., and evacuated the area because of a fear an explosive was present inside the machine. The explosives removal team, EOD, from the Dutch military cleared the scene by 7 a.m., and a smaller area was cordoned off by police for investigation. Police said no money was taken from the machine.
- ATM protection
- A bomb-proof protection system
The ATM containment protection is made of steel and composite materials in order to protect the ATM in the safe area, preventing the parts of the ATM from being blown up after an explosion for robbery forcefully expelled damaging the surrounding environment. Furthermore, after the explosion, the ATM protection will prevent the robbers from reaching the money kept inside. The protection was tested on explosion according to UNI EN 1143-1 standards 'Means of custody - Requirements, classification and test methods for burglar resistance - Part 1: Safes, safes for ATM, doors for armoured rooms and armoured chambers' by an authorized Certification Body and recognized.
The structure thus obtained reaches a high resistance, thanks to its elasticity, while maintaining a limited weight of 110 Kg . The ATM protection is designed to adapt to the dimensions of the various ATMs on the market, in height, in width and in-depth. Moreover, since the structure is made of modular parts, if there are protrusions on the surface of the ATM, such as alarm boxes, it is possible to displace these parts in free areas, minimising the need to move the devices.