Securicor

[theshadowhost]

Whats with the van on south street, it lurks in the bus bay near the end of bell street.

Its been ther at around 11 the last three nights and accoasionally at 1.

I thought these guys always came to do pick ups at "random" times so that you couldnt work out a schedule.

Plus who the hell would be handing over money at that time of night? - surely pubs and stuff do it in the morning when there is less interference from drunks?

[Fawksie]

Quoting theshadowhost from 12:42, 26th Oct 2006
Plus who the hell would be handing over money at that time of night? - surely pubs and stuff do it in the morning when there is less interference from drunks?

Do they? Wouldn't that mean holding cash in the building overnight? Isn't that more of a theft risk than a few drunks whom Securicor should be well able to deal with?

[sabra_girl]

That van parks right opposite my flat and it drives me crazy - it never turns its engine off and it's so damn loud! We usually spot it three or four times a week and it sits around for at least an hour usually - sometimes two. I thought Securicor were meant to move fast to avoid being done over? Grrr.

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[Kempy]

Quoting sabra_girl from 13:32, 26th Oct 2006
That van parks right opposite my flat and it drives me crazy - it never turns its engine off and it's so damn loud! We usually spot it three or four times a week and it sits around for at least an hour usually - sometimes two. I thought Securicor were meant to move fast to avoid being done over? Grrr.

Indeed, it's there most nights and is starting to get really annoying

[Rennie]

That van has been parking in St Andrews for at least the last 5 years, I remember it in my first year. I think it does bank collections and a couplle from pubs, but mainly banks. Not sure why it picks that time to do them - my theory was that they finish the job they're doing somewhere else early every night and they just sit about in St Andrews waiting to do the job there, watching drunks fall about. Usually parks next to Ginhouse or in the bus parking bit outside Madras, although sometimes venturers onto Bell St.

[theshadowhost]

But does anyone know who they are picking money off of? - i was watching/spying out the window the other night, but didnt manage to see any movement. - they were just sat there running the engine.

[sabra_girl]

The only time I've ever seen anyone get in/out of it was when one of the guys was having a fag a couple of weeks back. I've never seen anyone depositing anything in it before.

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[Paul Carey]

Also securicor fill up the ATM machines in some of the banks in town. The reason they have to hang around is due to alarm timings in some of the banks.



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[flarewearer]

I suppose they have to run the engine in case they need to make a quick getaway should some likely lads try anything.

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[Fawksie]

Quoting flarewearer from 23:20, 26th Oct 2006
I suppose they have to run the engine in case they need to make a quick getaway should some likely lads try anything.

Perhaps they just run the heater.

[flarewearer]

Quoting Fawksie from 00:01, 27th Oct 2006

Quoting flarewearer from 23:20, 26th Oct 2006
I suppose they have to run the engine in case they need to make a quick getaway should some likely lads try anything.

Perhaps they just run the heater.

Maybe they don't like students and want to keep them awake at night.

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[box_of_delights]

Quoting Fawksie from 13:18, 26th Oct 2006

Quoting theshadowhost from 12:42, 26th Oct 2006
Plus who the hell would be handing over money at that time of night? - surely pubs and stuff do it in the morning when there is less interference from drunks?

Do they? Wouldn't that mean holding cash in the building overnight? Isn't that more of a theft risk than a few drunks whom Securicor should be well able to deal with?

From my experience, pubs cash up and keep the takings in their safe overnight.

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[munchingfoo]

Yeah - pubs tend to have good security systems. Booze is worth a lot of money. Add a safe in the middle of it an you have a securer system than two middle aged no-bodies with eye visors at 1AM.

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[Fawksie]

Good point.

[TheUnixKid]

it'd be so easier to rob that thing. Even know 5 or more students know its whereabouts. Imagine someone with a criminal mind. Easy pickings.

[Malcolm]

I've seen it coming round the corner from Regs and stopping in front of the HBOS. Never seems to go to the RBS or Clydesdale.

Same time every night, but I suppose it's secure in that it's in a well-lit public area covered by cameras.

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[papercutheart]

Securicor don't work with HBOS.

[Moffat]

I have seen that van on countless occasions over the last year. They got suspicious after a while, because my evening "routine" would always mean I walked past it at the same time every night. Kept giving me dirty looks. After a while, I randomised my routes so they wouldn't catch on.

They're probably just on their break, or cashing up stuff in the back. I had a fanciful idea that they loaded it though a manhole below the van, since it always seems to park in the same place.

These things are tanks though, you'd need to drop a nuke on the thing to breach it.

"I only told you to blow the bloody doors off!"

[Paranoid]

Clydesdale definiteluy use Securicor.

Securicor don't caash up anything in their vans, they are handed cash in tamper proof bags (at least cash handed from the banks are), securicor would be in deep trouble if they were found to be opening them!

Has anyone tried just going up and asking them?

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[Huckabee]

I saw them a lot when I lived on south street last year. I just assumed they stopped there for their break as they were usually eating a sandwich/drinking tea or something. And I suppose they wouldn't turn the engine off because then they'd be sat in the dark for their break.