Union fears as security firms raided

CRIMINAL gangs are able to rob security firms more easily because there is a lack of proper security available to them, a union official has claimed.

The gangs are able to infiltrate cash-in-transit firms with ease because of a lack of Government action on a stalled private security bill, according to SIPTU official Kevin McMahon.

In a hard-hitting attack on the lack of protection for his members, he also claimed armed garda escorts of cash vans had been scaled down. Mr McMahon revealed the union recently outlined key concerns in a letter to the Justice Minister Michael McDowell. It followed a series of armed attacks on cash-in-transit crews.