A delivery truck worker lost his life in a tragic armed robbery on Tuesday, underscoring the urgent need for increased safety protocols to protect delivery personnel.
The incident occurred during the holiday season, a time when delivery activities surge, making workers especially vulnerable to criminal attacks.
Stephan “Tallboy” Eudovique sustained a gunshot injury to the thigh during a robbery of a goods vehicle at New Belair, Castries and later died.
A Royal Saint Lucia Police Force (RSLPF) officer, speaking anonymously to St. Lucia Times , noted the heightened risks delivery workers face.
“Delivery workers are especially vulnerable as they transport goods and often carry cash, making them prime targets for criminals,” the officer explained. “This vulnerability is compounded by the increased demand for deliveries during the festive period, placing workers at greater risk.”
The officer emphasised the shared responsibility of businesses and law enforcement in ensuring the safety of delivery teams.
He outlined several critical measures businesses should consider implementing to protect their workers:
- Hire Armed Guards: Employ licensed security personnel or off-duty police officers to escort delivery vehicles, especially in high-risk areas.
- Transition to Cashless Operations: Reduce robbery risks by eliminating the need for workers to handle cash during deliveries.
- Enhanced Training: Equip drivers and porters with de-escalation techniques and robbery response training to minimise harm during criminal encounters.
- Route Optimisation: Leverage technology to map out safer routes and avoid high-crime areas.
- Vehicle Security Upgrades: Install GPS trackers, dashcams, and secure compartments in delivery vehicles to protect goods and personnel.
“This recent robbery and homicide is a stark reminder of the dangers delivery personnel face daily,” the officer said. “Businesses and law enforcement must collaborate to implement practical solutions, while communities should remain vigilant to deter criminal activities.”
The tragedy has sparked outrage and fear among delivery workers and their families, who are calling for immediate action to address the risks associated with their jobs.
Many have pointed out that the festive season, which should bring joy, has instead become a time of heightened peril.
The officer urged businesses to take the lead in adopting comprehensive security measures. “By investing in security measures and fostering partnerships, businesses can protect their workers and ensure the safe delivery of goods. Together, we can make the holiday season safer for everyone.”
How about you give everybody guns? The criminals have free and ready access to them while law abiding citizens don’t. If criminals know everyone is carrying they would think long and hard considering the risks to their lives. That’s why the USA never attacked Russia and vice versa. They had equally sized guns in the form of nuclear bombs.
The good for nothings in St. Lucia need to be eliminated once and for all. People deserve the right to live in peace and not fear whether it is a regular day or a holiday. The thugs need to leave people alone and find something productive to do instead of planning robberies – Poverty is no excuse for crime. There are poor people all over the world who are NOT criminals – I have done the research and I know it is true.
Thugs are trying to get into peoples homes at night/day ripping out cameras and telling occupants to open the door – that is madness on every level – they need to be eliminated – some of their parents encourage their demonic behavior because they bring home the ill-gotten gains – yeah “he was a good boy” -GUESS WHAT — good boys are not gang bangers, murderers and thieves.
The folk in St. Lucia know who the murderers are (their family, their friends, the community) because they are selling STOLEN goods – ALL those who purchase stolen items or partake of ill-gotten gains will suffer just like the murderers because BLOOD IS ON YOUR HANDS – no EVIL DEED GOES UNPUNISHED – KARMA KNOWS OUR NAMES AND OUR ADDRESSES and all will REAP WHAT THEY HAVE SOWED AND MORE…par dee poor jab.
Help decrease the unemployment rate, stop hiring off duty police officers and hire more armed security guards. Am pretty sure there are security companies offering such service
The wages in st Lucia are to low so people resort to stealing and commiting crime to survive what can 6:52 do for over 20 thousand people , rent a month is about 700 dollars for a one bedroom apartment water and electricity bills food is expensive courts unicommer with 45 percent interest rate education for secondary school students
St Lucians Stop making excuses for criminals, stop enabling them. Unemployment is way down and there is a labor shortage right now, businesses cannot find people to work. Understand Criminals do not want to work they are greedy selfish sociopaths who prey upon the weak with no compunction or compassion. All we can do is defend ourselves and our communities from these predators. There are many rich people who are criminals and many poor who are honest. Poverty does not cause crime, crime causes poverty. People commit crime because they have no morals and we learn morals from our fathers. Fathers where are your sons?
Stop encouraing the criminels, the entire world has becomes the same in justice and judgment ⚖️
Before time there was no wages for man neither beast, those who lived before us though was poor but never lacks nothing and died rich, especiallly the early Christians who died in Christ..
The problème today is all because the eye never stop seeing and the grave is never satisfied..
While humans rights are ignored, the métropolitaine justice has condemed a youngster for crush a mice between his teeth because of invading on their table, seventy five thousand 💶 euros and five yrs imprisonment,
my emmotion came when the rebelles and the uneducated donkeys hurl the dogs over the cliff to death should face the same punishment (penalty..