Shopping centres warned of ‘hammer gangs’
Its unclear at this stage if the robberies are linked to a single gang, but police investigations are underway.
FOLLOWING a spate of shopping mall burglaries in and around the Durban area, Blue Security has urged shop owners and staff to be on high alert.
Reports of burglaries were reported in Watercrest Mall, Kloof Village Mall, The Pavilion and Westwood Mall with Pinecrest Centre being the recent one which was targeted.
Blue Security operations manager, Brian Jackson said the company had recorded at least five incidents of business burglaries at shopping malls and a further 10 unconfirmed reports of similar crimes had been reported to neighbourhood watch networks from Umhlanga to Scottburgh over the past three weeks.
“Most of the incidents reported to us occurred at night or several hours before stores would been expected to open for business.”
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“If you do not already have CCTV surveillance camera installed in the shop, consider upgrading your security as the intelligence gathered via camera footage can go a long way to help the police and security companies investigate these crimes,” said Jackson.
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