Are the safe deposit boxes in banks safe enough?
Are the strong room in the banks strong enough?
Over the Deepavali & Raya holidays, the strong room of a bank was broken into and it took more than 12 hours before the alarm kicked in. 92 safe deposit boxes were compromised. Depositors get a mere RM10,000 for the loss of goods.
This is not the first time where a bank's strong room has been compromised. It happend before 11 years ago... What attracted me was a comment by one of the depositors, "Kalau bank pun sudah tak selamat, mana lagi saya mau simpan?" hahahaha!!!
So can the banks and its security system be trusted? Thinking about it, the incident recently, there's much room for improvement. For one, the bank tak de CCTV at the upper floors, the alarm didnt function, the CMS didnt work.
I would like to suggest that Police District Headquarters offer safe deposit box services. In theory, if the strong room is in the Police Station, it should be safe. There are Police Officer armed with either a 9mm side arm or a styer or a M16 at the station at all times. The Police Station is also open 24hrs a day, 7 Days a week and also opens during festivities. It would then be fairly difficult for the socalled "Tunnel Rat Gang" to bust into a police station (unless its an inside job la). Kalau inside job and the strong room in an IPD is compromised, then there is something very serious that's going on in the police force and you can always ask the government to establish a Royal Commission :) hehehe. Lagipun, Customers can have access to their belongings 24 hours a day, as opposed to banking hours only. It would also be added income to the Government.
How many of us are willing to use the safe deposit boxes if the service is provided by the Police? Well, its something to think about....
AngkasaOne signing off...
Are the strong room in the banks strong enough?
Over the Deepavali & Raya holidays, the strong room of a bank was broken into and it took more than 12 hours before the alarm kicked in. 92 safe deposit boxes were compromised. Depositors get a mere RM10,000 for the loss of goods.
This is not the first time where a bank's strong room has been compromised. It happend before 11 years ago... What attracted me was a comment by one of the depositors, "Kalau bank pun sudah tak selamat, mana lagi saya mau simpan?" hahahaha!!!
So can the banks and its security system be trusted? Thinking about it, the incident recently, there's much room for improvement. For one, the bank tak de CCTV at the upper floors, the alarm didnt function, the CMS didnt work.
I would like to suggest that Police District Headquarters offer safe deposit box services. In theory, if the strong room is in the Police Station, it should be safe. There are Police Officer armed with either a 9mm side arm or a styer or a M16 at the station at all times. The Police Station is also open 24hrs a day, 7 Days a week and also opens during festivities. It would then be fairly difficult for the socalled "Tunnel Rat Gang" to bust into a police station (unless its an inside job la). Kalau inside job and the strong room in an IPD is compromised, then there is something very serious that's going on in the police force and you can always ask the government to establish a Royal Commission :) hehehe. Lagipun, Customers can have access to their belongings 24 hours a day, as opposed to banking hours only. It would also be added income to the Government.
How many of us are willing to use the safe deposit boxes if the service is provided by the Police? Well, its something to think about....
AngkasaOne signing off...
