For criminals the Easter holidays are good for business. It is their time to be active as they routinely like to take advantage of the significant increase of cash in circulation. While retailers gear up for increased sales, it's over this period that they stand a greater chance of being victim of an armed robbery.

According to Richard Phillips, Joint CEO of Cash Connect Management Solutions, businesses that still use manual cash processing methods are most vulnerable during this time.Click hereto read the rest of the article.

At Cash Connect we enable our clients to be more efficient and secure. And, we do so in spite of the fact that we exist within a society where crime and armed robbery is the norm. Currently, on the average, there are 52 robbery attacks and 204 burglaries daily on South African businesses. As a result, and at a too-great-a-cost, our retail sector is having to dig deep to safeguard its earnings, customers and employees. The more deterrents you have in place, the lower the chances of your store becoming a target.

Our cash vaults have been vigorously tested on numerous occasions over the past few years by determined criminals using every kind of tool from explosives to sledge hammers. They have undeniably delivered on the level of deterrence and defence necessary to discourage a repetitive continuance of the scourge of violent crime.

According to a report for the period of 21 months ending January 2016, 36% of total acts of crime against a measured retail sample were armed robberies, 11% were cash device bombings and 53% of these retailers experienced burglaries.

In stark contrast Cash Connect's clients, during this same period and over the same measured retail sample, experienced only one armed robbery, 2.8% cash device bombings and 1.7% burglary attacks of which 80% were defended.

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