Beware the prowlers within
Therefore, little of the past exploits of these light-fingered vermin ever comes to light.
EDITOR – One can no longer trust security services personnel to keep their fingers off what does not belong to them.
I have just had bitter experience of the loss of items which were important to me.
Security technicians from an erstwhile reputable company came to replace an existing system.
A few weeks after their advent, the first losses were noticed. Today, the second loss. Cannily choosing portable items which could be mistaken for their impediments, the thefts were perpetrated.
The management of this company has been apprised of this theft and will be doing a polygraph test on those I know to be responsible. However, I also know that there are those who have passed a polygraph test with flying colours. I also know how it is done.
Ergo, this will not necessarily prove to be the ultimate test of culpability.
I will be taking the matter further. In the interim, be warned, that nothing you own is sacred to these people. Do not allow any technicians into your home with kitbags of any kind. Make them leave them outside and scrutinise everything they do. Examine too, their vehicles before they leave, as it is easy enough to toss something out of a window and retrieve it on the way out. Better still, inform your security company that their personnel will be required to sign a letter of consent to be searched before you will allow them on to your property. Otherwise the company does not get your business.
We guard our homes and possessions against theft from itinerant prowlers and opportunists, but then we admit into our homes, trustingly, the very people against whom we are protecting our property from.
Forget all that you have hitherto regarded as a ‘type’. Trust no-one. Ever. All security personnel should be regarded with a jaundiced eye, and remember that they recycle themselves, and will move on to another security company if they have left previous employment under suspicion of theft. The companies who had employed them would rather not go to the law, as this is costly to the company. Therefore, little of the past exploits of these light-fingered vermin ever comes to light.
Beware.
