November 21, 2009
Published: 23 Sep 09 11:37 CET
Online: http://www.thelocal.se/22240/20090923/
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While police continue to gather evidence, traders and store owners in the Stockholm area are concerned over a possible shortage of cash following the spectacular robbery of a cash depot south of the city.
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The maximum load is 674 kg - 1 pilot and 4 passengers plus baggage. If there where 4 robbers plus the pilot then the max weight of money they could have taken would be about 200 KG.
Can Anybody work out the value of 200kg of 500 kronor notes?
The Police in Sweden are good at picking on the normal hard working people. They focus on what is easy to enforce, giving speeding and parking tickets. But in any other way they fail big time. Sweden is a safe haven for 'heavy' criminals.
What ever your views, gotto admire them for that.
Personally, i hope they get away with it ;)
It makes me wonder if all they were trying to do was to ridicule the cops?
Film wise, it's most similar to Ocean's 13 where they steal the diamonds of the chandelier through the glass roof by helicopter.
It is definately coming close to the same level of expertise as seen in the biggest robberies in Ireland, where there was significantly more security forces who were a lot better trained and more effective on the job. One Northern Ireland police officer would probably be more effective than the entire Stockholm police.
There really needs to be a hard look taken at the police in Sweden. Its entire structure, funding, control and oversight need to be changed, before even getting to recruitment and training changes.
A suggestion.
Get all the officers from An Garda Siochana Riot Squad in the Republic of Ireland, combined with ex-RUC special branch and the Police Service of Northern Ireland riot squad on secondement to Sweden for a year. Have the Israeli IDF train them to be more subtle. Then put them under direct control of a member of the Donegal An Garda Siochana, to patrol troble hotspots which would quickly become very civilised and to hunt down and destroy organised crime.
I think that might be a start to cleaning up Sweden's law and order problem.
if you do the math for the type of helicopter - Bell Jet Ranger 206 (B)
(max take off weight is 1451 kg) - 777 (empty weight) = 674 kg
**a typical bill 500 or 1000 SEK weights about 2 grams( i used 2)**
**NOTE-- calculation with NO fuel in Heli**
heli with 3 pass. 1 pilot, avg weight 70 kg, (280 kg) = left over weight availability of = 394 kg = 197,000 bills
= 98,500,000 in 500 SEK bills = 197,000,000 in 1000 SEK bills
heli with 4 pass. 1 pilot, avg weight 70 kg (350 kg) = left over weight availability of = 324 kg = 162,000 bills = 81,000,000 in 500 SEK bills = 162,000,000 in 1000 SEK bills
so by my calculations (which, admittedly, could be wrong) they could have only gotten away with just shy of 200,000,000 in the BEST CASE SCENARIO (i.e. no fuel, nothing else in heli,avg weight people, no tools, bags, clothing [oh yeah, nake robbers])
Max takeoff weight 1519kg (with STC)
Empty weight 777kg
Likely fuel 100kg ( heli would normally tank before a regular flight - do not think they would have refuelled any way 100kg of fuel is good for 270km range
1 pilot 80 kg
2 thieves 160kg ( eye witness said 2 guys got out of heli)
Max load of cash +/-400kg
This equates to 400,000 bills total load if all where 500kr bills would mean 200 million kronor
BUT 400 kg is a hell of a lot for 2 guys to lift through the skylight . a figure of 41 million has been mentioned in the press which means 82,000 500kr bills= 82 kg which they should have been able to handle