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Original Post Date: 2009-03-04 Time: 14:01:10 Posted By: Jan
By Lavern de Vries
Police sources investigating a series of cash-in-transit robberies have identified a new modus operandi used by the criminals, who are believed to be responsible for at least six armed robberies in the Western Cape last week.
A senior police source said on Tuesday that the armed robbers had changed from the usual pattern of ramming vehicles into the security vehicles to unnerve the security guards.
“Instead, they now come out guns blazing and shoot at the security vans and guards,” he said.
| ‘It does not seem as if they really know which trucks to hit’ |
The source, who spoke on condition of anonymity, also said the group allegedly responsible for the death of one security guard seemed to be inexperienced as their attacks did not appear to be very well planned.
“They seem to be hitting trucks with very little money.
“It does not seem as if they really know which trucks to hit,” he said.
Police believe that the men are cruising the city and outlying areas in the hope of spotting a truck, following it and then attacking it.
“They also don’t seem to have a getaway vehicle nearby like we have seen in the past because they use the same vehicle that they spotted the truck with to flee the scene and then abandon it nearby.”
The Cape Argus earlier reported that the police’s specialised organised crime unit is investigating the possibility that the group of men are from the Eastern Cape.
Provincial police could not confirm any arrests linked to the series of cash-in-transit heists experienced last week.
No other cash-in-transit robberies have been reported since Friday.
On Friday, heists occurred in Malmesbury and in Kraaifontein.
In Kraaifontein, a guard was shot dead by a group of armed men while he was carrying a money box.
They made off with only R11 000.
Earlier the same day a security guard was shot in the shoulder, also by a group of armed men, after they rammed into his security bakkie in a car they were travelling in.
On Tuesday another guard was shot in the shoulder in a cash-in-transit heist in Durbanville.
Two more cash-in-transit robberies were reported, in Strand and Milnerton, last week.
No one was injured in those robberies.
In some of the robberies, the armed robbers stole weapons from the guards.
In each instance the car they were travelling in was found abandoned near the crime scene.
Several of the cars used were reported stolen.