BASSETERRE, St. Kitts - FOR the third time in as many months, bandits have targeted the St. Kitts-Nevis-Anguilla National Bank’s Automated Teller Machines (ATM); once in Tabernacle and twice at the CA Paul Southwell Industrial Site, just off the shoulder of the Frigate Bay Road.
According to Police Press and Public relations Officer, Inspector Henderson, a senior manager of the National Bank made a report at the Basseterre Police Station at approximately 6:00 a.m. on Wednesday, December 8, 2010 that the ATM at the CA Paul Southwell Industrial Site was broken into.
“Police detectives from the Criminal Investigations Department responded and their enquiries revealed that some unknown person(s) jumped the wire fence enclosing the ATM building and broke open the back metal door, damaging the lock and leaving the door ajar and all the alarms were activated,” Henderson said.
Henderson however declared that no monies were stolen from the vault and there were no signs to indicate that it was tampered with. He explained that officers from the Crime Scene Department processed the scene and no one was held in relation to the matter but investigations are ongoing.
On Sunday, October 17, the booth of the same ATM was broken into and two days after another one in Tabernacle suffered the same faith. However, the perpetrators were unable to penetrate both vaults.
Henderson told SKNVibes that “ATMs are extremely fortified and it makes no sense for persons to break into them. These machines have built-in security features within the vaults, and even if they were to penetrate a vault they wouldn’t get very far without being detected”.
