Never before there were so few armed robberies of Belgian bank branches. In 2018, there were two robberies take place, ten years ago, there were more than a hundred. That report bankenfederatie Febelfin. Also the number of robberies in bank branches is a spectacular drop. The number of plofkraken is then again in the elevator.
The number of armed robberies decreased in ten years from 116 to only 2. The number of burglaries plummeted in that time as well: from 78 to 12. A peak was visible in 2009, when there were 195 burglaries in bank branches took place. Since then, the number declining. the
The reason for the declines, according to Febelfin, the search for a better security of the offices and the increasingly smaller amount of cash in the offices. “That also explains why the number of (attempts to) plofkraken of atms, but is risen: 18 in 2018, compared to 4 in 2017”, says Febelfin.
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The past year the banks according to the federation of intensive consultation with politicians and the police, both nationally and internationally, to the gulf of plofkraken a halt. “There are various security measures taken: less cash in atms, more security of atms and the installation of intrusion detection systems that attempts to break in quickly detecting”, what it sounds like. the
In Antwerp yesterday with a spectacular break-in a branch of BNP Paribas Fortis on the Belgiëlei. The perpetrators knew there by way of tunnels the kluizenzaal to achieve.
