Saint Lucia police have appealed for information as they investigate a robbery at the Choc Branch of 1st National Bank.
The Royal Saint Lucia Police Force (RSLPF) has requested that anyone with information call the Criminal Investigations Department at 456-3770.
The Crime Hotline at 555 and the RSLPF Crime Hotline App are also available for anonymous reporting.
While not mentioning the 1st National Bank, a police release disclosed that at about 8:30 pm on Wednesday, the Castries CID received a robbery report at a financial institution in Choc, Castries.
According to the release, law enforcement officials responded promptly, including CID investigators and the Special Services Unit.
Preliminary investigations revealed that masked individuals confronted bank employees at gunpoint and eventually made away with an undisclosed sum of cash.
The police disclosed that there were no reports of injuries and no suspects were in custody.
Nevertheless, the RSLPF said investigators are actively pursuing leads.
According to reports, a hostage-taking drama preceded the bank heist when, at about 5:00 pm, the armed assailants accosted bank employees on Calvary Road, Castries.
According to the reports, three bank employees were in a vehicle that slowed down due to another car ahead of them from which smoke was emanating.
At that point, the armed assailants struck, forcing their way into the vehicle with the employees and ordering them to drive back to the bank.
Once back at the lending institution, the armed individuals got the employees to access cash at the bank’s ATM and made off with an undisclosed sum.
The employees then summoned the police.
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Go and do your jobs instead of begging for information.
Whatever happened to all those cctv cameras all over the place.? They better solve this quick as it is quite encouraging and motivational for would be robbers, not excluding hard working law abiding citizens who are just broke!!!
Here we go again y’all need the public help but y’all always there to mistreat people hmmmm to me if I knew I would keep it to myself y’all sometimes don’t worth it because y’all high and mighty can do what y’all want then run to public for y’all to slove a crime well I never hear i never see I never talk
Zero trust in the police force until they prosecute the criminals in their ranks. Zero trust in the police until they start taking their jobs more seriously.
Inside job!
They are multiple view points at this location.. if it’s mask then they are certain technology that. An remove the mask but do they have such expertise
Ask Countryman again for information!
Why can’t the police use cctv cameras to catch those cockroaches . They are just a bunch of crack cocaine smokers who refuse to get a job so many vacancies are out there especially in the hotel sector but then again is fast money they want ….
I have read this news item on several sites and all reports are different. It was also noted nobody mentioned about the Bank manual Security Gaurds. Does that mean that there were none. Another observation was that everyone is suggesting that it might be an inside job, however many fail to note former security gaurds can be a suggestion, especially with type of people that are recruited by local firms.
Freedom of speech !!! You see this is what happens when they hire uneducated, arrogant and proud people and place them in the police force. Of course there are cops who take their job serious but majority of them are just a bunch of arrogant bullies and dirty cops. Oh now you need help from the public ? Which makes sense cause yourll cannot be every where at once but the public will not help you !! Police are here to serve and protect but treat hard working law abiding citizens like criminals and dogs , idk what spirit yourll work under but it’s not for protection but oppression and abuse of power!! yourll on the road stopping people with your big guns asking for license and registrations and wrongfully charging citizens if yourll can’t find a reason to seize their vehicle , yourll will never get my help. That makes us as a country unsafe with yourll as our protectors because I hearing how much things happening from January to August and hardly anyone being caught. No leads ??? Yourll haven’t even mention investigation in the bank itself starting with camera footage , security and the employees that were held hostage. Almost everyone saying it’s an inside job yourll cannot see something is off ? What happen to the car after the bandits got into the bank employees car ? What type of car the bandits were driving ? Skin complexion ? The bandits seemed young or more mature ? Ask them questions individually in private look for the stories that don’t add up !!! Do yourll jobs !!! Instead of bullying the public !!!! That’s what yourll have to train and increase knowledge on so that yourll can be able to apply that knowledge and catch the real criminals in st Lucia not the poor people struggling to make ends meet! This is insanity!! Yourll act clueless like yourll don’t even know what to do it’s high time yourll seek assistance from another country or something but yourll have to much pride !!!
Take it easy !
JEREMIAH ‘S Report :
Over all in the heights in St Lucia 🇱🇨 and the barren lands,
the destroyer will swarm,and the destructor will devour from one end to the other,no one will be Safe..
St Lucia’s Watchmen
“Security guard, what is left of the night ?
Watchman, what is left of the night ?”
The security guard replies :
The morning is coming, but also the night..
If you would ask, then ask ;and come back yet again”
Didn’t the bank have security cemeras ? Why are you seeking help. People are afraid of giving the police infor you all talk too mu
Didn’t the bank have security cemeras ? Why are you seeking help? People are afraid of giving the police infor…. you all talk too much.