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TECHNOLOGY REPORT










































      You couldn’t make it up







                                C                                           was, but the value alone should be enough to raise eye-

                                      onsider the Antwerp World Diamond Centre
                                                                            brows.
                                      robbery in 2003 – a break-in at a vault two floors
                                      underground protected by no fewer than 10 lay-
                                                                             And then there was the ‘lesser’ case from 2008 which
       Sometimes we come              ers of security. As the story tells, Leonardo   Printweek also reported on. In this instance, a production
                                      Notarbartolo disguised himself as a diamond
       across stories of crim-        merchant and moved into an apartment next to   worker at book printing firm Clays had been stealing cop-
                                                                            ies of various books over an 11-month period from a plant
       inality that are so out-  the centre in 2000 and in 2003 he and his crew stole dia-  in Bungay, Suffolk, to sell on eBay for around £5 each. It
       landish as to be         monds and gold worth $100m without triggering any of the   is not clear how many were stolen or how much he had
       unbelievable – where     63 security cameras. Bizarrely, Notarbartolo was eventually   gained from selling them.
                                linked to the crime by roadside rubbish and his DNA found
                                                                             Interestingly, the government’s 2023 Commercial
       the brass neck of the    on a sandwich.                              Victimisation Survey (CVS), updated in September 2024,
       perpetrators is           Not quite as extreme, but nevertheless outrageous, is   found – among things – that an estimated 26% (409,000)
       beyond belief. Yet       the theft in November 2024 of the entire rPET recycling   of all business premises, in England and Wales, were a
       these stories are        plant from QC Polymer (in administration). As   victim of a CVS crime during the previous 12 months; and
       often, remarkably,       Printweek reported in December, the line was found to   the most prevalent offence type experienced by busi-
                                                                            nesses was theft (14%), followed by burglary including
                                be stolen on the eve before a public inspection of assets
       true.                    before an auction. Printweek wrote that, notably, “the   attempted burglary (8%) .
                                administrators had estimated that it would have taken
       Words by                 seven days to dismantle this plant, and a fleet of 10 articu-  Risks of loss
                                lated lorries and two cranes to cart it away”.  Zachariah Islam, managing director of Region Security
       Adam Bernstein
                                 Just as peculiar, is another case that Printweek reported   Guarding, says that loss in commercial and industrial
                                at the beginning of this year of a “customer-owned item”   environments is more prevalent than many business
                                worth £50,000 that had gone missing from the failed   owners might assume – “while retail settings often focus
                                Works Manchester. It was not disclosed what the item   on shoplifting, industrial and commercial sectors face



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