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   From: banana@REMOVE_THIS.borve.demon.co.uk   
      
   In article , Trevjon   
    writes   
      
   >"rich"  wrote in message   
   >news:tVnMf.54766$K42.13617@newsfe7-win.ntli.net...   
   >>   
   >>> 3) I heard an interview on BBC radio with a former senior cop. The BBC   
   >>> guy said - in the form of a question, as usual - that the robbers would   
   >>> have to be very careful if they wanted to do stuff like buy a car with a   
   >>> bundle of notes. The former senior cop said nope, they're professionals,   
   >>> they ain't going to do that - they'll launder it through e.g.   
   >>> Liechtenstein instead, or via 'financial advisers' who are 'used to   
   >>> taking large cash deposits'.   
   >>   
   >> Yes, "professionals" always do that just after leaving all the evidence in   
   >> the car park!   
      
   >As is often the case with big robberies of this nature, one gang is   
   >"contracted" to do the Robbery itself, whilst another gang is   
   >"sub-contracted" to clear up all the mess afterwards.  A fine example of   
   >this is the Great Train Robbery, where a secondary gang were contracted to   
   >clear away all the evidence from the farmhouse the "robbery gang" used as a   
   >hideout.  They did an incredibly shoddy job (or, some reports suggest they   
   >didn't even do the job, just took the money and ran), which, ultimately, led   
   >to the arrest of the main gang.  The police found fingerprints on tea-cups,   
   >eating utensils, furniture, and a monopoly game.  All these pieces of   
   >crucial evidence should have been destroyed or cleaned, but weren't.   
      
   Don't you think Dixon's car would have had a (real-time) tracker, Trev?   
      
   Wouldn't the insurance have insisted on it?   
      
   (In the other post, I mentioned satellites and the mobile phone network,   
   but my understanding is that decent trackers use both - they receive   
   info from GPS satellites to fix the location, and then send it out using   
   the cellular network).   
      
   Presumably Securitas have got a central security station somewhere, to   
   which depots 'check in', in real time.   
      
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   banana     "The thing I hate about you, Rowntree, is the way you   
               give Coca-Cola to your scum, and your best teddy-bear to   
               Oxfam, and expect us to lick your frigid fingers for the   
               rest of your frigid life." (Mick Travis, 'If...', 1968)   
      
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