Taste of Things to come!

Kia Ora,

Well the last week & in particular the last few days are showing a taste of things to come.

We have had 2500 job applicants for 160 jobs. What has this to do with security?

About 18 months ago an ex army mate returned from the US talking about how out of touch NZ was & how this was happening in US. At the same time as people were loosing their jobs crime was going up.

Prior to Xmas last year there was the usual rise in the number of armed robberies, but it was happening in clusters which seemed unusual. Two to three a day in one area of the country then same next day in another area. Almost like the bodysnatchers were saying today we hit Hamiliton, tomorrow Christchurch.

Well after being quiet for a while in the last two days there have being four armed robberies, but these have being spread across the country & either very young people or hitting small town/rural areas.

As the economy gets harder for people to make ends meet, this trend will continue to grow, yet again most in the industry will not want to know or even carry out basic risk assessment.

It is not about money for drugs anymore, it is going to be more about just living. Thre forecast is in the US the middle class is going to get hit hardest & therefore have to resort to things they have no idea about.

Emotions will be higher & so things are more likely to go wrong.

It also means that just in small things people are going to have to be more aware.

Try this. Walk around a car park & see what is open to view despite years of warnings.

Cough medicine (possible to use some for manufacture of P), wallets, cash, lap tops, plane tickets, passports, rates bill (giving your address- steal your car then break into your house using your car to transport it) & these are just some of the things you will see in the first maybe 10 cars you look at.

If you own or work in a store the chances of robbery are going to increase. Often store keepers I know ask what they can do.

Each time I tell them one simple deterrent but no one has used it yet. Correction one after years of telling them have used a variant.

It has being used overseas where you place at the entrance to your store a TV  & the first thing people see as they walk in is a large picture of themself. It has being known to put off people wearing a balaclava over their face.

Why don't people do it? Because they want to use that space to put more items on to sell & besides it will never happen to them.

Yeah Right!