Tuesday, April 17, 2007

Pigs can fly

So, this extremely well planned case of shop lifting happens in Dubai at one of the most prestigious malls with an estimate of AED 50 Million (about $ 13.5 Million) worth of stolen diamonds from Graff jewelry store. According to eyewitnesses, security cameras and the police, the whole operation did not take more than one minute and 45 seconds.
It took the police three whole minutes to get to the scene.
A lot of “factors” are to be considered I’m sure, and I’m also sure that I don’t have the experience nor the education to know and consider all of them… but those three people who did this, obviously thought it through and did their research.
They could have an associate working at the mall that helped facilitate the whole stealing process, even if they hadn’t, I’m assuming it would’ve all been the same.
Two Audi cars crash into the mall’s glass entrance and park in front of the store, three individuals come out of the cars, steal the jewelry, go back into the cars and drive out of the mall.
I have a few questions: Why is the entrance to the mall made of breakable glass? Why isn’t there constant security attendance by each and every jewelry store? Why did it take the police three whole minutes to get to the scene? Why didn’t the store have any security measures what so ever that could’ve prevented or might’ve cut the losses of this whole thing? Why wasn’t there proper security or decent security measures? Why was the “available” security unarmed, untrained and so not ready for this?! And why am I not surprised that they weren’t!!??
Get this, a proposed solution that came from the Dubai Chief of Police is to arm UAE National security guards.
Is there such a thing as UAE National security guards?

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