SIPTU calls for mandatory tiger-kidnapping training for cash-in-transit workers

The Government is being urged to insist cash-in-transit workers receive training to help them deal with potential tiger-kidnapping situations.

SIPTU said workers had been left vulnerable to attacks while transporting and protecting the country's wages and cash flow.

It follows the latest tiger-kidnapping incident in which a Dublin family this week went through a 13-hour ordeal.

A cash-in-transit worker was forced to hand over €200,000 to those behind the attack while his partner and daughter were held captive tied up in a van which was driven around for several hours and ended in Meath. The picture below shows two vans being removed in the course of that investigation.

SIPTU's Jack O'Connor is now calling for compulsory training. He said: "The financial institutions and the State and the security industry have a responsibility to narrow the angle of attack and to take the measures that can be taken, and not to treat the people who work in the industry and their families as somehow less important than the money itself."