Real Estate Investor Magazine South Africa March 2014 | Page 39

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• Employees that are trying to get out of work
early.
• Someone with a personal vendetta against
someone that works at a centre.
• Wanting to create confusion or distraction in
order to commit another crime.
• Wanting to force people depositing large sums
of money at a bank out of the bank with their
cash in hand in order to rob them.
• As an act of industrial sabotage to divert
customers elsewhere or cause loss of income to
competitors.

• At a minimum and in any size organization,
employee involvement is the key to prevention.

Device placement

Employees should receive awareness training
on the topic of bomb threats and extortion.
• Consider having a voice recorder attached to
all main telephone lines to record calls.
• Have telephones with caller identification
displays for all main telephone numbers.
• Keep a “Telephone Bomb Threat Checklist”
at all main telephones (Bomb Threat Form)
• Higher risk areas, such a data processing
facilities, utility and storage roo