Banking & Finance

Financial services employees are at risk of violence whilst at work, when arriving and leaving their place of work (bank, building society branch or post office), when walking to and from their vehicles and even in their homes.

 


Branch Managers face a high risk of ‘Tiger Kidnap’ - a term used for a particular type of kidnap where a manager, a person in a position of trust or a relative of that person is kidnapped to enforce their co-operation in the theft of money or goods under their control.

Cash In Transit workers are exposed to the risk of robbery and hijackings and has become so great for this group that one major security firm supplying to key financial institutions will no longer deliver cash to certain off-site automatic teller machines (ATMs). This is a result of around 2.4 million euros being stolen from cash-in-transit security guards while operating in Dublin, in March 2005.

Security Guards are at a high risk of robbery and violence. (In May 2000, major industrial action from a firms’ security guards occurred as a result from the death of a security guard attacked in January 2001 while he was stocking an ATM in an unprotected public area in France).
 
  Solutions :
 

IDProtects 'amber alert' function can help to monitor the movements and ascertain the location of a financial sector lone worker who may require help quickly.

IDProtect offers the lone worker reassurance that there is always someone at hand should they require immediate assistance from the emergency services.

IDProtects 'red alert' function allows the lone worker to raise an alarm discreetly without putting themselves at a greater risk of violence.

GEOAssists GPS location is transmitted in the event of an alert providing location and alert level to response personnel. A voice channel is also opened which can provide valuable information about the severity of the alert to response personnel.

The PPS provides the command and control centre back bone for all alerts received from personal devices.