[murd0c]

You hear of bank robbery's all the time but rarely do you hear of hostage situation's these days. Hopefully everything goes smoothly for the customer's inside.

Police surround Surrey, B.C. bank after reports of robbery | CTV News (http://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/police-surround-surrey-b-c-bank-after-reports-of-robbery-1.2780210)

SURREY, B.C. - Police have surrounded a bank in Surrey, B.C., after receiving multiple calls at about 8:30 a.m. about a robbery in progress.

RCMP say initial reports were the building had been evacuated of all staff and customers when officers arrived at the bank on 72nd Avenue in the Newton area of Surrey.

Witnesses say police have surrounded a TD Canada Trust branch at the corner of a shopping


An employee at a nearby store says 15 to 20 police cars have been stationed outside the bank since before she arrived at work.

The woman who did not wish to give her name says officers came by her store and told her to stay away from the area.

Another employee at a business about a block from the bank says police would not allow her to enter her workplace and that she went in through a back door

[JSALES]

That's crazy, hope no one gets hurt

[Sid Vicious]

honestly have never heard of anything like this happening in the GVRD

[Expresso]

Another employee at a business about a block from the bank says police would not allow her to enter her workplace and that she went in through a back door
Told to stay away, but backdoors it...

[Lomac]

Told to stay away, but backdoors it...

Welcome to Newton...

[sho_bc]

the building had been evacuated of all staff and customers when officers arrived

Not a hostage situation if no one is being held hostage...

[6o4__boi]

don't think there was ever a hostage
apparently they're looking for the man, who may be armed

if true
how the hell did he get out of the bank
:badpokerface:

[i-vtecyo]

Misleading title.

[CivicBlues]

Misleading topic title, please change it.

There's no indication of any hostages involved, for all we know it could be some nutbar with a sharpened stick by himself in the bank refusing to come out.

[yray]

For all we could know the bank is empty :lawl:

[Happy]

For all we could know the bank is empty :lawl:

There's a story of a summary going around, I'm pretty sure some people on here gotten it from friends/fam as well. I'd post it but I don't want to mention names of the people that work there

If the story is true, basically the workers outsmarted the robber and trapped him in in a room while they escaped with the customers, he's the only one in the building now

[murd0c]

At first when I made this thread it was said there were hostages but I changed the thread title now.

[shawnly1000]

RCMP Emergency Response Team has made entry into the TD Bank at 13650 72 Ave and arrested the male without incident.

as per ScanBC

https://twitter.com/ScanBC/status/699721438773846016

[6o4__boi]

lol i was thinking...who the hell still robs banks these days
then i realized, surrey.

[iwantaskyline]

lol i was thinking...who the hell still robs banks these days
then i realized, surrey.

It's actually very common. Most robberies do not get on the news because the banks do not want bad publicity. Tellers are forced to hand over any money a robber tells them to give them, most write it down and hand it quietly to the teller. If the teller makes a scene they'll get fired lol.

[Mr.Money]

must have locked him in the safe with his back turned..."locked in a room"

[6o4__boi]

It's actually very common. Most robberies do not get on the news because the banks do not want bad publicity. Tellers are forced to hand over any money a robber tells them to give them, most write it down and hand it quietly to the teller. If the teller makes a scene they'll get fired lol.

interesting...but those must be like small time robberies in small banks with no security right?

but for the most part i meant like, broad day light, gun-toting style type of bank robbery...that just doesn't happen anymore, at least in recent memory.

[RRxtar]

I don't think heat style movie hostage bank robberies happen too often in real life.

But banks still get robbed all the time. It usually makes the news in Kelowna because we have less interesting news. Usually suspect shows or says he has a gun and demands $, teller hands them the money and off the suspect goes.

[Mikoyan]

I was told there's a bank robbery a day in the Lower Mainland.

Source: Cops, during a ride along when the radio reported a bank robbery.

[Harvey Specter]

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[Stealthy]

I don't always go full potato but when I do I try to rob a bank across the police station

[vitaminG]

apparently he claimed he had a bomb.

[Jmac]

Someone's been playing too much Grand Theft Auto ... or not enough ...

[604STIG]

Is Surrey our Florida?

[tegra7]

Sources say robber was a south asian male. What a disgrace to my people.

[EuterVanWasser]

OK, 15+ years with a chartered bank.. front line, through management, now in operations. Tegra7, every persuasion robs banks - don't sweat it.

I was surprised to learn the 2nd robbery I was in, the dude was middle aged and white. Everyone expects it to be a down and out junkie, but that's not always the case.. sometimes it is a depressed person who just wants attention.

Yep, I've heard the stat in the industry; robbery per day and I believe it. Whoever said a teller would get fired for raising a scene has no idea what they're talking about. Everyone reacts to a situation where someone potentially has a gun or a bomb or a knife differently. Human capital and trust is a Bank's most valuable asset therefore the employee would only get fired the 2nd time they did it. ;)

Any way, kidding aside just really glad to hear no one was hurt.

[iwantaskyline]

OK, 15+ years with a chartered bank.. front line, through management, now in operations. Tegra7, every persuasion robs banks - don't sweat it.

I was surprised to learn the 2nd robbery I was in, the dude was middle aged and white. Everyone expects it to be a down and out junkie, but that's not always the case.. sometimes it is a depressed person who just wants attention.

Yep, I've heard the stat in the industry; robbery per day and I believe it. Whoever said a teller would get fired for raising a scene has no idea what they're talking about. Everyone reacts to a situation where someone potentially has a gun or a bomb or a knife differently. Human capital and trust is a Bank's most valuable asset therefore the employee would only get fired the 2nd time they did it. ;)

Any way, kidding aside just really glad to hear no one was hurt.

I've been told first hand from friends who work at banks that tellers will get fired for causing a scene for no reason. Think about it, they could be endangering everyone's life inside that bank for causing a scene rather then quietly handing over 5 grand or whatever the robber requested. I'm using 5 grand because that's usually the limit tellers can withdraw without going to a manger? I dunno exactly, never withdrew that much cash before.

They are trained to hand over the money first and report it after the robber has left the bank...From what I've been told.

[4444]

OK, 15+ years with a chartered bank.. front line, through management, now in operations. Tegra7, every persuasion robs banks - don't sweat it.

I was surprised to learn the 2nd robbery I was in, the dude was middle aged and white. Everyone expects it to be a down and out junkie, but that's not always the case.. sometimes it is a depressed person who just wants attention.

Yep, I've heard the stat in the industry; robbery per day and I believe it. Whoever said a teller would get fired for raising a scene has no idea what they're talking about. Everyone reacts to a situation where someone potentially has a gun or a bomb or a knife differently. Human capital and trust is a Bank's most valuable asset therefore the employee would only get fired the 2nd time they did it. ;)

Any way, kidding aside just really glad to hear no one was hurt.

how much money do banks even hold in this day and age?

I'd imagine not enough to risk being put away for a long time (though in canada, is this not just a slap on the wrist and promise not to do it again?). whenever i've needed to take out large sums of money (>10K), i'd need to give the banks 48 hours warning, which suggests they don't hold hundreds of thousands of dollars (and nor should they)

[Vansterdam]

Lol isn't there a police station across the street?

The last time I was at that bank there was a ambulance and a cop car right outside dealing with some crackhead

[maxx]

my friend works close by. you will have to turn your head.

[tiger_handheld]

surrey had a lot of shit going on yesterday...

in addition to above, some employee tried to be a hero and got stabbed by a suspected shoplifter at guilford.


Surrey :|

[originalhypa]

Is Surrey our Florida?

+

surrey had a lot of shit going on yesterday...

in addition to above, some employee tried to be a hero and got stabbed by a suspected shoplifter at guilford.


Surrey :|

= Surrey



I think Stig is right about Surrey being our Florida.

https://twitter.com/_FloridaMan

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Upon further review, Florida is far more messed up than we are.

:lol

[604STIG]

Our banks don't carry very much cash on hand (rightfully so) I'm sure that's why we never hear of big bank "heists" around here unlike in the States. Also, the tellers are trained to behave and react in a certain way (basically do what the robber says to reduce chance of altercations) but i've never heard of someone being fired for "causing a scene" although i'm not sure exactly what kind of scene your talking about? Teller just randomly starts screaming or something?

Couple years ago one of the tellers at the bank where my mom worked was robbed, he passed her a note asking for a very specific amount of money, something like $758.50 or something like that. He was found by police about 2 hours later across the street at Metrotown, shopping. I don't know what the rest of his sentence entailed but he was made to write an apology letter to the tellers for doing what he did. It was all quite ammusing after the fact, knowing that nobody was hurt.

[ray666]

Don't know why the RCMP ERT chose to wear Multicam. I know it looks bad ass, but come on.

[CRS]

Don't know why the RCMP ERT chose to wear Multicam. I know it looks bad ass, but come on.

Probably an easy way to differentiate between your guys and their guys.

[GLOW]

maybe it's a bit of psychological warfare. when suspects see you geared up like you're ready for some CoD shit maybe the bad guys will second guess themselves, get scared, or give up peacefully b/c they see shit got real.

[Manic!]

Robbing a bank teller is stupid. They have at most a couple hundred dollars on them. The rest of the money is in the back and they need a second person to get it for them and that takes some time.

[jlo mein]

Don't know why the RCMP ERT chose to wear Multicam. I know it looks bad ass, but come on.

A lot of North American law enforcement special teams have switched to Multicam, including the FBI HRT and the DEA. The official line is it helps camoflauge them in transitional areas, like urban parks and yards, bushes etc. Grey uniforms aren't very effective even against urban buildings anyways.

The alterior motive I heard in the industry for LE teams moving to Multicam is its military appearance and intimidation factor.

I remember as of 3-4 years ago, the VPD ERT still wore either black or grey. I haven't seen what they wear since then.

[Tr1ll]

A lot of North American law enforcement special teams have switched to Multicam, including the FBI HRT and the DEA. The official line is it helps camoflauge them in transitional areas, like urban parks and yards, bushes etc. Grey uniforms aren't very effective even against urban buildings anyways.

The alterior motive I heard in the industry for LE teams moving to Multicam is its military appearance and intimidation factor.

I remember as of 3-4 years ago, the VPD ERT still wore either black or grey. I haven't seen what they wear since then.
Had a training ex that VPD ERT took part in playing OpFor and they were wearing a mixture of Coyote and Multicam.

[slicrick]

Is Surrey our Florida?

:lawl:


What a terrible place to try something like that, unless he was just looking for attention. That bank is close to 2 different police stations :lol