CISCO guard shoplift in Uniform...
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it could have turned ugly had he drew his revolver...
sigh.. how are ppl supposed to trust CISCO in ensuring the security of sensitive commercial and industrial premises?
What's next? A Cisco van drive into M'sia with loot?
Nov 16, 2006
Armed Cisco guard caught shoplifting
Jurong hypermart security squad nabs him as he walks out with 3 DVD players
By Ben Nadarajan
AN ARMED and uniformed Cisco guard was arrested for shoplifting on Tuesday morning after calmly strolling out of a store carrying three DVD players.
The officer, in his early 20s, had walked into the Sheng Siong Hypermart in Jurong, dressed in his uniform and carrying his revolver in a holster.
A few minutes later, he walked brazenly past two female employees and out of the rear delivery entrance carrying the DVD players, together worth about $200.
According to security supervisor Tay Swee Teng, when he was first approached, a few metres from the rear entrance, the man told them he was a police officer and that they 'cannot touch me'.
Mr Tay asked the officer to show him a receipt. When he was unable to produce one, he claimed he was going across the road to withdraw money from an ATM.
However, the ATMs are located at the front of the store and the back door was off-limits to customers.
Mr Tay, 43, said the man then tried to run off, but was surrounded by five supermarket security officers, who escorted him to the main office and kept him there until the police arrived.
While waiting inside, Mr Tay said the officer was gesturing wildly and scolding the staff. He also allegedly told them: 'I have a gun.'
However, he never drew his revolver.
Mr Hoon Hock Kwee, one of the five internal security
officers who assisted in Tuesday's arrest, said: 'I could not believe my eyes when I saw him just walk out like that with the boxes. I thought for a while that he was on official business, but I realised that if he was, I would have been informed.'
Mr Tay was also shocked at the officer's audacity. 'He was too much. He treated our team as if we were transparent and looked through us.'
Police officers later removed his revolver and took him away in a police car, but not before giving him a jacket to wear over his uniform.
A Cisco spokesman confirmed the person arrested at the supermarket along Yuan Ching Road was one of their employees.
'We take great care in checking the background of our employees before they are employed as security officers,' she said.
The men who stopped the Cisco officer were part of Sheng Siong's newly formed security squad set up last week in each of its 17 supermarkets here to tackle shoplifters.
Its human resource manager Norman Teng said shoplifting was a big problem for the company.
On average, its employees catch two shoplifters a week at each outlet, he said.
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He brave man!!! but too bad the man's future gone already...
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since when cisco guards can b trusted?
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wonder they gt steal money anot...
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Just for DVDs? Wtf.
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Weren't they worried that he pull his gun on them?
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Im actually surprised sheng shiong has five, maybe more security officers...
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why they didnt take away the gun when he was detain in the office?
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personally i think the guard has gone partially wacko already
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If the Sheng Shiong staff took away his sidearm, they will have to answer to the cops don't they? Like unauthorized possession of a firearm or something.Originally posted by BabyTea:why they didnt take away the gun when he was detain in the office? -
trying to offset the rise in GST for the future
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What if he shoots them all dead in the office and escapes to malaysia? Ok, I agree that's far fetched. But he sort of abused his authority and somewhat verbally threatened the security officers with his duty revolver.
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I think last time also have cisco convoy escorts kenna caught for corruption...
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For just 3 DVDs in exchange for a future?
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three DVD players, not three DVDs!
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Oops.. typo. Too used to saying DVDs liao.Originally posted by ditzy:three DVD players, not three DVDs! -
alamak...so xia suei...
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Poor thing...
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once, i stopped a cisco officer not in his uniform for smuggling in pornographic vcds at the old woodlands checkpoint. when i stopped him, he showed me his cisco id, but i ignored it and proceeded to search for contraband...and that's when i found some vcds stuffed in his pants...suspecting that those were porn vcds and not wanting to embarass him, i asked him to follow me to the search room without removing the cds...and indeed, those were XXX vcds...he pleaded for forgiveness and seeing that he's still young, i reprimanded him for abusing his authority by showing his id to avoid being searched...i then ask him to destroy the disks in front of me and let him off...
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don't understand why he wants to go steal Sheng Song's cheapo DVD Enzer players...wanna steal must go Bose or some atas brand mah...becos of less than 300 dollars worth of player and ruin your future...haiz.
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say, you like work in customs leh...i heard you can bring in 5 pirated discs so long its not XXX, is it true?Originally posted by Schwing:once, i stopped a cisco officer not in his uniform for smuggling in pornographic vcds at the old woodlands checkpoint. when i stopped him, he showed me his cisco id, but i ignored it and proceeded to search for contraband...and that's when i found some vcds stuffed in his pants...suspecting that those were porn vcds and not wanting to embarass him, i asked him to follow me to the search room without removing the cds...and indeed, those were XXX vcds...he pleaded for forgiveness and seeing that he's still young, i reprimanded him for abusing his authority by showing his id to avoid being searched...i then ask him to destroy the disks in front of me and let him off... -
If he can walk out of a shop carrying bose goods, that shop deserved to be looted.Originally posted by red_amoeba:don't understand why he wants to go steal Sheng Song's cheapo DVD Enzer players...wanna steal must go Bose or some atas brand mah...becos of less than 300 dollars worth of player and ruin your future...haiz. -
is he mad!!?
aiyoo should go those electrical stores and walk away with ipods? laptops mah...
a bleak future for that poor man...