Securicor Robbery

Posted: Mon Jan 26, 2004 12:11 pm

At 12.20 on Thursday 15th January a Securicor CIT Officer was robbed at gun point at Swiss Cottage London Underground Station. The robber sped off on a motorcycle. British Transport Police are appealing for witnesses.
I was actually across the road from the station when it happened but at the time all i could find out from the BTP officers at the scene was that the CIT officer was ok.

Posted: Mon Jan 26, 2004 6:47 pm

I hope I can talk for all of us when I say that I hope the officer is OK and I wish him all the best after what he has been though.

Paul

Posted: Mon Jan 26, 2004 7:42 pm

Likewise, I'm sure.
Although CIT pesonnel are perhaps more acutely aware of the dangers of 'the bad guys', it is never a good day out when you get a gun pointed at you.
I wonder if his employer offered councelling?

Posted: Mon Jan 26, 2004 10:51 pm

I certainly wouldn't have wanted to be in his shoes.
I forgot to say, this is not the first armed robbery of a Securicor CIT Officer at Swiss Cottage LUL Station. There was one last year! I would have thought that Securicor would have altered there procedures at this station after the first one.

Posted: Mon May 24, 2004 9:55 pm

You would have thought so.
I might just go and ask them for the hell of it.