Threats can come from anywhere!

Kia Ora,

Early this morning New Zealand time a burglar alarm activated. The key holder responded once a security guard informed them of a break in. Together they entered & searched the premises but found nothing, upon which the security guard left.

Shortly after the Key holder was confronted by a male & a scuffle resulted. The male has died as a result.
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Up until the last paragraph that action takes place many times each night in New Zealand alone.

Upon discovery of a break the guard has waited for the key holder. Depending on the instructions left with the monitoring company often police will not be called. Although in this case it been a Chemist store, police should of really been informed immediately on finding of a break.

It is here the first threats have to be considered. Drug addicts are a likely suspect & on any break no one should enter without back up. Hence the guard waited to escort the key holder.
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Together they carried out a search with no result. One problem with two people is unless they are both on same wavelength areas can be missed.

One good team I often work with through subcontract work stick to the basic's year in, year out where each person has their own system, but each can be relied on to cover all nooks & cranny's in their assigned area.

I know of one guard who could not find a sign of a break on arrival, so entered on two alarm activations only to find the burglar holding on for dear life in the rafters of a store room just by chance on the second visit.

Now we still don't know what has happened in this incident that resulted in the death.

There are two scenario's. One the person was missed in the search.

The other which I would think is most likely & have seen it on several occassions, where a break happens, security & key holder respond, check the place out, usually the key holder remains to summon someone to fix break &/or clean up then leaves. On one occassion they could get no one in so altered the camera's & left.

When the burglar thinks that no one is on site they again enter the premises(often this happens several times) to carryout the burglary( on the occassion alluded to above there was some very good footage of the people at the bus stop on the first activation,driving a car up & climbing through the already broken window).
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At all times there is a threat & it can come from any direction. It can be on an alarm activation or just on a routine check as a mate found out when he was hit by a jemmy bar over the head.

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