Trainspotting arrived in the UK like a juggernaut, ram-raiding theaters.
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They parallel park next to the cash machine to avoid an attack by ram-raiding.
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Ram-raiding, a once-common crime in which criminals crash cars or vans through the front of shops or banks in order to loot them, is largely a thing of the past, says Nick Tilley, a criminologist at University College London, because of innovations such as the introduction of bollards in front of such premises and security shutters to protect shopfronts.
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Automated teller machines are also targets of ram-raiding, with criminals smashing the machines to steal cash boxes. Many companies have come up with solutions to ram-raiding.'Raminator' foils ATM ram raids. The Daily Telegraph.
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A Wincor Nixdorf Procash 2100xe Frontload that was opened with an angle grinder. Early ATM security focused on making the terminals invulnerable to physical attack; they were effectively safes with dispenser mechanisms. A number of attacks resulted, with thieves attempting to steal entire machines by ram-raiding. Since the late 1990s, criminal groups operating in Japan improved ram-raiding by stealing and using a truck loaded with heavy construction machinery to effectively demolish or uproot an entire ATM and any housing to steal its cash.
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21 Aug. 2008. Everything from electronic bollards to electronic barriers has been employed to keep property from the raiders. Another solution is security guards, but round-the-clock teams are expensive and often not the most economical way of dealing with ram-raiding.
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A bollard in front of a shop to deter ram-raiders. Ram-raiding is a type of burglary in which a heavy vehicle is driven into the windows or doors of a building, usually a department store or jeweller's shop, to allow the perpetrators to loot it.
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Smash and grab raids became common in the 1930s, and were particularly prevalent in the 1940s, but decreased in frequency as shopkeepers took to strengthening their windows and/or fitting protective grilles. By the 1950s, forced entry to shops was being effected by using cars and grappling irons to pull window bars off windows, a precursor to the 1980s phenomenon of ram- raiding.
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The term door security or door security gate may refer to any of a range of measures used to strengthen doors against door breaching, ram-raiding and lock picking, and prevent crimes such as burglary and home invasions. Door security is used in commercial and government buildings, as well as in residential settings. Some strengthened doors function as fire doors to prevent or inhibit the spread of fire.
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On May 3, 2013 van der Eem was sentenced by the Arnhem District Court to serve twelve months in prison. The reason for his punishment was his co-perpetration in a ram-raiding in Oosterbeek stealing ski clothing with a value of approximately 30.000 euro as well as handling stolen goods by using a stolen Volkswagen Caddy for a covert transport of the clothes.LJN: BZ9309, Rechtbank Arnhem, 05/720002-13, Rechtspraak.
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Mooring bollards, such as this one in the Hudson River, were the first type of bollard: the use of the term has since expanded. A bollard is a sturdy, short, vertical post. The term originally referred to a post on a ship or quay used principally for mooring boats, but is now also used to refer to posts installed to control road traffic and posts designed to prevent ram-raiding and vehicle-ramming attacks.
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The criminal investigation department assumes that he led a group of co-suspects who were dealing with stolen cars, used for ram-raiding and plofkraken. Those cars were parked in a warehouse in Utrecht, cleaned and "whipped" (checked for eavesdropping equipment or monitoring beacons). At the end op April 2020, Anouar Taghi was arrested for his involvement in an attempted murder and for participation in a criminal organization. On 30 October 2019, a 28-year-old man was attacked by three men wearing balaclavas with a sledgehammer in Utrecht.
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