Booysens SAPS gives tips to avoid cash robbery
SAPS offers safety tips to small businesses.
BOOYSENS SAPS appeals to small businesses who deposit money on a regular basis to apply the following tips to avoid being victims of robberies.
• Alternate the days and times to deposit cash.
• Never make your bank visits public, even to people close to you.
• Do not openly display the money you are depositing while you are standing in the bank queue.
• Avoid carrying money bags, briefcases or openly displaying your deposit receipt book.
• It’s advisable to identify another branch nearby that you can visit to ensure that your banking pattern is not easily recognisable or detected.
• If the amount of cash you are regularly depositing is increasing as your business grows, consider using the services of a cash management company.
• Refrain from giving wages to your contract or casual labourers in full view of the public. Rather make use of wage accounts that can be provided by your bank.
• Refrain from driving to the bank in your company branded vehicle on a typical ‘payday’.
• Consider arranging for electronic transfers of wages to your contract or casual labourers’ personal bank accounts.
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