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07/01/2010
Cash Robbery Prompts Probe
Robbers targeting automated teller machines (ATMs) have again switched tactics.
Following a series of ram-raids on actual cash machines themselves - using industrial diggers - two cash-in-transit security personnel were attacked yesterday morning.
In what is thought to have been the theft of money intended for a bank cash machine (ATM) in Co Down, the incident took place at 10am on Wednesday at the Ards Shopping Centre Mall.
Detectives in Bangor CID are appealing for witnesses following the armed robbery by two males who approached the security officers as they entered the foyer area of the centre and threatened them with a knife before making off with a substantial sum of money in a security box.
The men escaped in a gold coloured Mondeo that was recovered a short time later in the Windsor Avenue area of the Scrabo Estate.
It is believed the robbers abandoned this vehicle in favour of a silver coloured Mitsubishi.
Anyone who witnessed the robbery at the shopping centre or the abandoning of the vehicle in the Windsor Avenue area around 10.10am is asked to contact detectives at Bangor CID on 0845 600 8000.
Alternatively information can be passed anonymously to the Crimestoppers charity on 0800 555 111.
See: ATM Gang Strikes Again
(BMcC/GK)
Following a series of ram-raids on actual cash machines themselves - using industrial diggers - two cash-in-transit security personnel were attacked yesterday morning.
In what is thought to have been the theft of money intended for a bank cash machine (ATM) in Co Down, the incident took place at 10am on Wednesday at the Ards Shopping Centre Mall.
Detectives in Bangor CID are appealing for witnesses following the armed robbery by two males who approached the security officers as they entered the foyer area of the centre and threatened them with a knife before making off with a substantial sum of money in a security box.
The men escaped in a gold coloured Mondeo that was recovered a short time later in the Windsor Avenue area of the Scrabo Estate.
It is believed the robbers abandoned this vehicle in favour of a silver coloured Mitsubishi.
Anyone who witnessed the robbery at the shopping centre or the abandoning of the vehicle in the Windsor Avenue area around 10.10am is asked to contact detectives at Bangor CID on 0845 600 8000.
Alternatively information can be passed anonymously to the Crimestoppers charity on 0800 555 111.
See: ATM Gang Strikes Again
(BMcC/GK)
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