CITY EYES WAYS TO HALT BANK ROBBERIES.Byline: Cecilia Chan Staff Writer THOUSAND OAKS Thousand Oaks, residential city (1990 pop. 104,352), Ventura co., S Calif., in a farm area; inc. 1964. Avocados, citrus, vegetables, strawberries, and nursery products are grown. - Dye packs A dye pack is a device used by banks to foil bank robbers non-violently. Banks put dye packs in money given up during robberies. The dye pack is an incendiary device that explodes in a shower of colored ink, and sometimes tear gas, intended to permanently stain the stolen , height markers on exit doors and strategically placed cameras are among the recommendations the city may forward to local banks after a rash of robberies in the Conejo Valley The Conejo Valley is a region spanning both Southeastern Ventura County and Northwest Los Angeles County in Southern California, United States. It was discovered in 1542 by Spanish explorer Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo, and eventually became part of the Rancho El Conejo land grant by last year. The City Council will consider adopting a resolution Tuesday recommending the city's 31 banks adopt the voluntary prevention measures developed by a bank robberies The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. Bank robbery is the crime of robbing a bank. task force. ``(A) lot of them we are already doing,'' said Kevin Halgas Jillson, executive vice president of California Oaks State Bank on Hillcrest Drive. ``I have not talked to a vendor to see what the cost of the additional measures would be.'' Jillson declined to discuss what security measures Noun 1. security measures - measures taken as a precaution against theft or espionage or sabotage etc.; "military security has been stepped up since the recent uprising" security are in place at the 3-year-old bank, which has never been robbed. Eight bank robberies and one attempted robbery took place last year in Thousand Oaks, consistently ranked one of the safest cities in the nation. Five have been solved so far, said FBI agent Brent Robbins, who participated on the task force. Authorities attribute the high number of robberies to the banks' close proximity to freeways and the tougher security measures at Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. banks, which motivated robbers to look elsewhere for banks to hit. ``If I had to rank (the recommendations), I would say cameras are extremely important because it helps us solve the crime,'' Robbins said. ``It won't prevent the robbery, but it'll help us catch them and prevent them from doing another robbery.'' All banks are required to have cameras, but the quality varies from a 35 mm camera to a high-quality digital color video, said Larry Logan, crime prevention officer who headed the task force. ``We are not asking banks to go out immediately to retrofit ret·ro·fit v. ret·ro·fit·ted or ret·ro·fit, ret·ro·fit·ting, ret·ro·fits v.tr. 1. To provide (a jet, automobile, computer, or factory, for example) with parts, devices, or equipment not in their old equipment,'' he said. ``There's still some advantage to the old. We're not saying get rid of the old but enhance it with something up to date.'' Other recommendations include placing video surveillance cameras at all entrances, individual teller windows, vaults, ATM locations, parking lots and other public areas and video monitors and telephones in employee break rooms. |
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