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   From: trevjon@btinternet.com   
      
   "banana"  wrote in message   
   news:FnPpRJAm9sAEFwIv@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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   With the amount of cash involved, I would have thought that there would   
   certainly be measures in place to counteract what is a pretty well known   
   ploy, of kidnapping manager/family etc.   
      
   The gang may well have found a way to circumnavigate this, and I doubt the   
   police would actually want to broadcast this, if it was the case, and I   
   doubt the security company would want it leaked also.   
      
   As is usually the case in these jobs, a good deal of "inside help", or at   
   least "inside knowledge" is required.   
      
   Footnote:  Do to the nature of my job, some of our cars and vans have   
   trackers fitted, using both the GPS and GSM ("mobile network") systems plus   
   a secure radio link too. This radio link is operated by all UK and European   
   Police forces, and sends out a VHF radio signal if activated.   
      
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