SIPTU seeks McDowell talks following van heist

Trade union, SIPTU is seeking an urgent meeting with Justice Minister Michael McDowell to discuss the threat to security van staff following a raid in Dublin on Monday (March 14) morning.

The family of a security van worker was kidnapped ahead of the raid and the man was then forced to go to work as normal and co-operate with the thieves when they intercepted his van.
In January, a security company employee was also shot in the leg during a robbery in Co Kildare and SIPTU, which represents many security staff, said it wanted assurances that measures were being taken to tackle the problem.

A Dublin-based criminal gang is believed to have been behind the raid, but it is unclear if this is the same gang that was blamed for a spate of security van hold-ups last year.

Those raids appeared to have come to an end when Gardai mounted an operation in west Dublin to frustrate the activities of several criminal gangs.