Alarmed over the incident of bank loot which took hardly five minutes on busy Harmu Bypass road on Monday, State Crime Investigation Department (CID), issuing fresh guidelines for the banks, has asked them to check unwanted persons visiting the banks and also to keep strict vigil on suspicious activities outside the banks.
ADG, CID, Ajay Kumar Singh while reviewing the incidents of bank loots in the last two years in Ranchi also directed bank officials to ensure installation of security sensors in it so that police could be informed immediately about the bank loot through SMS.
“The banks have been asked to upgrade their security system adopting new techniques and install security sensors so that police could be informed automatically through SMS if any disturbances are caused with the chest box or treasury chest by any unwanted person,” said CID SP Narendra Kumar Singh. The SP said that a review of the old cases related to bank loots in the area was done by the ADG where a discussion took place how to move forward in those cases.
Three armed persons, their faces covered with a scarf and helmets, robbed over 7 lakh from Kishoreganj branch of Indian Overseas Bank on busy Harmu Bypass Road highlighting how banks continued to remain apathetic towards adopting foolproof security measures.
Banks were also asked to check even passbooks of the persons if necessary, to check unwanted persons visiting the banks, said the SP.
“The banks were also directed to keep strict vigil on suspicious activities outside the banks and ATMs and not allow anybody to roam around it,” said the SP. A regular monitoring of alertness and availability of security guards deputed outside banks or ATMs should also be done by concerned police stations and security officers of banks, he said.
Proper checking of the persons entering the banks should also be done regularly so that unwanted persons do not get an entry to the bank,” said the SP.
Meanwhile, security of banks have been increased in and around Ranchi deploying more forces in big branches and a close vigil is being kept around banks and ATMs so that no one gets any chance to do a recce.
During the review meeting, South Chotanagpur DIG Homkar Amol Venukant was also asked to take required steps after reviewing the matters related to loot cases with SSP, DSP and IOs of the cases towards identifying the groups involved in it and also form teams involving CID officials to arrest them.
The meeting was also attended by IG CID Sampat Meena, SSP Kuldeep Dwivedi, City SP Kishor Kaushal, Rural SP Rajkumar lakra and other police officials.