Kidnapped by tigers
Today in Maryland two suspects were arrested in a tiger kidnap scenario. Two men armed with a gun and knife approached the manager of a bank as she arrived at her Clinton home Friday night, police said. They tied her and her husband with electrical cord and held them overnight, police said. Early Saturday morning, their captors forced the couple and their two sons, ages 8 and 11, into the family car, and ordered the father to drive to the SunTrust Bank in Silver Spring, police said. The father could alert a patrolling state trooper on the highway by driving etratically. Their car was pulled over and the suspect was arrested. A second suspect was arrested later; a third is still at large.
In September, a PNC bank manager and her two young children were kidnapped from their Lusby home and forced to take $169,000 from the bank where she worked. More real life “tiger kidnaps” show that the threat is for real.
Tiger kidnap:
“The abduction or holding of a hostage (or claim of having done so) with the intention of forcing an employee, relative or another to facilitate the immediate theft of any valuables; or concede some other form of ransom from any institution or business organisation”
Is it a growing theat? Without law enforcement statistics specifically on this type of crime, that is a difficult call. It is a real threat for sure; especially the financial industry has been targeted. The first money spent on protection is usually to protect from “outside threat”. The inside threat is sometimes underestimated. And an inside threat against the company is exactly what tiger kidnappers aim to achieve. While with the proper risk assessments and procedures you can prepare yourself for these scenario’s, it is a long way from home for a lot of managers.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiger_kidnapping
http://www.crg.com/pdf/tiger_kidnap_report_LR.pdf
http://wjz.com/local/bank.robbery.family.2.895675.html
http://www.wtop.com/?nid=598&sid=1559628
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/ireland/article1265444.ece
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/6920668.stm
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ukpress/article/ALeqM5jFTos7ub7PWeJxeZuAw3NEQGOoZQ
