Security risks ‘taken to suit banks’

SECURITY companies have been exposing themselves to risk for years in order to suit the opening hours of some banks, it was claimed yesterday.

Multi-million euro cash deliveries to other parts of the country are sometimes collected the previous night from bank cash centres. This is because the banks don’t open early enough in the morning of the actual delivery, security companies claim.

Cash in transit companies say they are exposed to raids after they collect the money and when they leave their depot in the morning.