| Journal: TWUK | Section: |
| Title: | Issue Date: 16/10/00 |
| Author: | Page Number: 84 |
| Copyright: Other |
Raid prompts Thomas Cook security rejig
THOMASCook will review security arrangements following a raid at a branch in East Molesey, Surrey last Monday.
Two staff members were locked in a toilet during the raid, while robbers escaped with money from a cash drawer. The retailer declined to reveal the amount stolen.
A Thomas Cook spokesman said:”Our primary concern is for our staff and customers at the branch. Fortunately no-one was injured on this occasion but events like this can be exceptionally traumatic.”
In July £23,000 in cash and travellers’ cheques was stolen fromThomas Cook in East Sheen, southwest London.
Multiple Travel Agents’ Association chairman Brian Axon-Boyes raised the issue of the rising threat of crime at the Campaign for Real Travel Agents conference in July (Travel Weekly July 24).