Shopper's Safety
How many times have you thought that your shopping experience would be a bad one? Had one of those bad experience of theft or assault from other shoppers?
These cases do happen in shopping complexes, and the usual scenarion would be for a huge group of people will gather round to catch a glimpse of the incident, the all security guards will come and apprehend the culprit accompanied by the victim to the security room. There a statement about the incident will be taken by the mall guards and the customer's belongings will be returned instantly. The shopper is happy to get their property back and leave feeling content that the culprit is in custody and 'actions' will be taken.
That's the usual 'ideal' scenario that all of us think will/should happen right? What if this was not the case? How many times have you actually stayed and waited for the police to arrive? How many times have you see a police car near the vacinity of the shopping complex? Any newspaper publish these incidents? One might say the mall would like to cover up the incident thus the hush up.
What's wrong with publishing these theft/snatch incidents happening in malls? There's cases like these happening everywhere. IMHO the mall will gain better trust from the public if they know that they are capable to secure their shoppers.
I've been thru one of these before, its not a snatch incident but an assault from an unknown person. Happened in Sunway (guessed you all know which mall i'm refering to). We're at the archery lounge enjoying ourselves, and as usual there'll be ppl loitering around watching. Then there's this malay bloke went beside my friend and use her arrows and started shooting. Once, twice, three times, I got the attention of the manager and informed him of the incident. He then asked that the bloke to leave the premis. Thought the incident was over? think again. He was waiting at the entrance for us.
When we're leaving, he came and confronted us.. and things start to get physical. The staff at the archery range just stood there looking. The 3 of us then restrained him and yet the staff still standing there doing nothing. We got the manager and he contacted the mall guard. They came, we followed and give them a statement. We left thinking that they'll call the police and stuff. GUESS we were wrong.. About an hour later, to our horror, that same bloke was released by the guards and yet caused another disturbance elsewhere. This time trying to snatch a lady's purse but was caught by her partner... Yet again the mall guards was there, leading them into the same room that we've just been to.
Think you're safe with mall guards? Think again....
These cases do happen in shopping complexes, and the usual scenarion would be for a huge group of people will gather round to catch a glimpse of the incident, the all security guards will come and apprehend the culprit accompanied by the victim to the security room. There a statement about the incident will be taken by the mall guards and the customer's belongings will be returned instantly. The shopper is happy to get their property back and leave feeling content that the culprit is in custody and 'actions' will be taken.
That's the usual 'ideal' scenario that all of us think will/should happen right? What if this was not the case? How many times have you actually stayed and waited for the police to arrive? How many times have you see a police car near the vacinity of the shopping complex? Any newspaper publish these incidents? One might say the mall would like to cover up the incident thus the hush up.
What's wrong with publishing these theft/snatch incidents happening in malls? There's cases like these happening everywhere. IMHO the mall will gain better trust from the public if they know that they are capable to secure their shoppers.
I've been thru one of these before, its not a snatch incident but an assault from an unknown person. Happened in Sunway (guessed you all know which mall i'm refering to). We're at the archery lounge enjoying ourselves, and as usual there'll be ppl loitering around watching. Then there's this malay bloke went beside my friend and use her arrows and started shooting. Once, twice, three times, I got the attention of the manager and informed him of the incident. He then asked that the bloke to leave the premis. Thought the incident was over? think again. He was waiting at the entrance for us.
When we're leaving, he came and confronted us.. and things start to get physical. The staff at the archery range just stood there looking. The 3 of us then restrained him and yet the staff still standing there doing nothing. We got the manager and he contacted the mall guard. They came, we followed and give them a statement. We left thinking that they'll call the police and stuff. GUESS we were wrong.. About an hour later, to our horror, that same bloke was released by the guards and yet caused another disturbance elsewhere. This time trying to snatch a lady's purse but was caught by her partner... Yet again the mall guards was there, leading them into the same room that we've just been to.
Think you're safe with mall guards? Think again....
posted by Flasher @ 6:54 PM
1 Comments:
At 11:41 AM,
MaoBi said…
Law enforcement is a funny thing. On the one hand it deters the bad people from doing bad things. On the other hand it deters the good people from dishing out justice because you are quite sure that the LE folks will do it.
when the LE folks fail then people start meting out their own brand of justice. Note that once in a while you read in newspaper of snatch thief get caught by crowd and beat till die...This is a failure of Law enforcement because we no longer trust the people will be caught or dealt with properly.
As for your case, maybe best bet is to have whack kow the guy. Stealing arrow is one thing but confronting and getting physical in the mall is another. Once someone is prepared to deal out physical action I think its justified to respond in kind. Next time whack the fella properly
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