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Beryllium urged to implement lie detector tests, deploy more guards to transport cash

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Robert Finzi-Smith
 
Security consultant Robert Finzi Smith says Beryllium Limited should implement a policy where its employees periodically take a lie detector test.
 
He made the comment in light of Friday's robbery in the vicinity of a bank in Mandeville, Manchester.
 
Mr. Finzi-Smith, who was a guest Monday on the Morning Agenda on Power 106FM, said polygraph screening can significantly help security firms in their hiring decision by eliminating those who may present risks for the company. 
 
"Before someone can work a truck, they have to go do polygraph every six months. One of the people involved in one of the earlier things that was detained was a former JDF personnel who had left the army because of some unfortunate involvement with firearm, but that person ended up working with the company. How? Under which blue moon that happened? You're so desperate for people that you take anybody and then you try and manage them? No," argued Mr. Finzi-Smith. 
 
According to police reports, men with high-powered rifles attacked a Beryllium security team which was collecting cash at a bank.
 
One of the guards reportedly challenged the attackers, but the security team eventually retreated and the gunmen grabbed two of the bags containing cash and escaped in a waiting motorcar.
 
Five bystanders were shot and injured in the incident.
 
Mr. Finzi-Smith believes Beryllium Limited needs to deploy more security guards to transport cash to and from financial institutions. 
 
He contended that the guards are being put at a disadvantage because they are underarmed and undermanned. 
 
"You must be careful what you wish for. You attempted to take over all of the cash in transit for the banking sector. Now you have it. If your model of profit and loss means that you now have to do so at the risk of human lives that are employed for you, something is wrong. And if you're working on the business of a risk assessment of how many times [these robberies] can happen and what your insurance companies will cover, again, it's wrong."
 


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