5 members of a gang in north east London had been filmed on CCTV stealing a large sum of money from a massage parlor in 13/12/2011. If anyone knows any information of these members please call 999 quoting this video.
8 January, 2012 by Douglas Fox
5 members of a gang in north east London had been filmed on CCTV stealing a large sum of money from a massage parlor in 13/12/2011. If anyone knows any information of these members please call 999 quoting this video.
I have tweeted through all my accounts and hope it helps to find these cowards.
Lou4fun
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What can we learn from this video (besides the actual case. Sorry I do not want to compromise anyone):
1. Gangs try to rob small private brothels, massage parlours and sex worker flats to make quickly and easy cash and minimize prosecution.
They raid with the same tactics as police forces does in sting operations:
- disguised as client
- send one fake client ahead as ‘trojan horse’
- let them open the door for their fellows
- some intruders control the workers
- others search for cash
2. counter measures:
- customer pre-selection by email, chat and phone
- by appointment only
- trust your gut feeling and intuition
- proper door control (with peephole or camera)
- only one customer per time
- never enter a hotel room with more than one client
- never get into a car with more than one men
- learn self defence
- have security personnel / a pimp
- do not work on your own (prohibited by UK law)
- have an alarm system / button / horn / flash light (to banish)
- use covering
- have an emergency phone / emergency phone number preselected
- separate cash boxes
- hidden cash
- safe (risk that it will be forcibly opened by extortion)
- do not store more than a days income at the workplace (go to the bank every day)
- sex workers who can not work fully legal bare the higher risk
- camera surveillance and CCTV system