Topic: Should security be employed in local bet shop? - page 4. (Read 562 times)

The owners of these local betting shops try to make as much profit as possible, so they limit their staff requirement to less than five just so they do not have to pay so much salaries. The few people that they employ are the people who help bettors place their bets, they are the cleaners, they are also the security and every other job position that is required.

If your money makes it to the local gambling shop, I do not think you can be hijacked there. The danger is when you win a huge sum from these shops, and you are given cash, and then you need to take it home.

to answer the title of the thread. of course, they should be employing security guards. security guards are not just a deterrent to possible robbers but also for troublemakers inside the shop. In the Philippines all the gambling shops that I have been to always have security guard/s. I mean it is common sense to have security guard/s in case someone starts causing trouble inside the shop or to repel a would-be robber.

Local gambling shops you mean sport betting agents that help facilitate bets right. They do have cash but what I have experience with them is that only the representative is allow to book games for bettors, the main agent or tbe owner is the one that hold the money and most of tbe time, they don't sit there, they go about there working other business and husle and come back in the evening to settle all the won slips. In a situation where the agent is the one that manage the game, they don't take much cash with them and if you win like millions, you will be directed to go to the betting company office, that's where you will be paid because the agent most of the time don't have much cash with them.

I think most of them don't value security because they feel they don't need it because the money they bring to shop isn't big and no thief will want to risk their life for such small amount because they also have police that works with them incase of people that don't like to pay or settle them after they played. I have seen many people locked up by the police officer for playing without paying. I think it might be because of police they work together with they don't misbehave with around them.

Until there is a serious security breach the security of lives and properties in an around business places are always taken with kids gloves. Governments on the other hands and their regulators do not do their jobs when it comes to this. This is part of their job. I haven't had any encounter in a local bet shop and I hope it never happens. Lastly, if I can bet online using their online betting platform, why put myself in harm's way by going to the local store.

Security won't help you outside. As far as I know they're only going to get involved on the premises and if you get jumped somewhere else they usually won't leave the building and just call the police.
It's generally the same thing when you withdraw from a bank. They will escort you to the door and then you're on your own, which is why smart people usually drive to the door or get driven by someone, or they call a cab and get straight home.
I've seen people win some money on slots and walk out into the street. You expect to carry money, go with someone or at least buy tear gas or something.

I understand that you are talking from your own view, but truth be told that there is always hard in a traditional betting shop, the reasons are because gamblers must lose their bets and some of them already have anger issues, so joining anger with their loses will caus more harm.
I am speaking from my experience, and I have seen some, if not ones it might be twice. Honestly speaking, if I have a betting shop, I will state it bold for everyone to see, I will say that any gambler that has an anger issue should not visit my shop so that the unthinkable will not occur.
However, no one can tell the hart of man, and all this things that is said is just sticking into one conclusion that says every traditional betting shop should have a tight security just for emergency.

It is the small betting shops that mostly do not have any form of security channels, they believe getting security personnels or security devices mean additional cost to the business,  therefore they have to do business at the mercy of God's protection.  This is an act of carelessness and the operators of these betting shops know this, they want to cut cost yet lose virtually everything when the bad guys strike.

Every business that involves cash inflows and outflows on a daily basis should make security their top priority, this alone will go a long way to increase the business's reputation. It not just about protecting the business from theft, but also guaranteeing the safety of their customers. The customers should get this satisfaction that they are in safe hands.

Having security in gambling shops is very important,  but many gambling shops don't consider to provide for security for safety for gamblers and their business.  Have come across gambling shops that was attacked by robbers and it went successfully because their where no security.  And sometimes it looks very risky after winning a huge sum of money and people in the shop are aware of it because we do not know who people are and what they will have in mind.

In developed countries securities in gambling shops is something that is not taking for granted, securities are the necessary things gambling shops needs to provide.

Of a truth security is very much important and as a matter of fact, it is an integral part of the society for a peaceful coexistence. Looking at what you have said OP, it is nice security is present in local bet shop depending on the type of betting shop. Like in my country, I really have not seen any bet shop with security because they are just so open and they are just a kind of a general betting shop were average people go to. If it requires security, I their should be a high class casino were the high class go because they spend Hugh amount of money.

The local betting shop had the escorts who was trained in nature and do all the gymnastics.They will keep their body fit to fight for the people who use to involve in the fights after the loss in the local betting.The gambling had the equal probability of getting loss in the gambling site.If their is no security as you said,even then criminals will get into the office of the local betting shop.So the criminal will do the stealing of the money in the office by fighting with the works in the office room.But the fact is office workers will not have the muscle to fight against the criminals in the office of the local betting.

I think the local betting shop the OP is referring to are those ones with small shops. If it is a casino that is very big, they will have not option than to have securities. A small casino can not be a place of attraction for thieves.

Your personal data or your payment data can also be leaked on an online casino. Some people that do not like online KYC casinos is becuase of this main reason.

It is very simple. They leave their betting shop open for everyone above 18 to come in, whether they are mentally stable or not, they are free to gamble.

Why you haven't heard of any news about a robbing incident happening in any betting shop before is because someone can begin to rob a location where there are numerous males, both young and old folks with different characters(good and bad) in the same locality with frustration and anger in their heart of the money loss, and someone else would want to rob them or the betting agent in a broad daylight without consider themselves being caught.

I know of a place in my locality, where the betting agent makes a lot of money, up to $300 in a day($300 is a whole lot of money in my country). Never has someone heard of robbers attacking the betting agent because of the money he gets each day(Monday to Saturday) upon he closes late every day(8pm).

In all seriousness, there is no way for an ordinary person to check whether a particular machine is really set up for fair play (even if that machine is in a casino and has a corresponding tag). In my opinion, the main danger when playing on street slot machines is the possibility of personal and payment data leakage

Security is very important for those that own the local base casino to employ security so that those thiefs coming to robb gamblers in the casino center will be arrested and be charge to court so that they will never try such thing again in the society. There are many security in my country and, the local government representative take security serious more than any other things that is giving all the local base casino owners to have more customers that is coming to the casino center to bet at anytime and, they are enjoying security service through the local government officials.

If the place is not secure, I think they can employ security to protect their business and their customers because once the gamblers notice some insecurity in the shop in that particular society, they will begin to avoid the gambling center to protect their money.

I didn't know that gaming machines were allowed in stores, in my country for example only licensed physical casinos can have gaming machines, in stores, markets and streets it is prohibited. The government of my country is very friendly with gambling and defends the rights of customers, in case people are placing machines on the streets or in stores, then there would be no way for technicians from the gambling sector in my country to be able to inspect the machines to confirm whether the machines are provably fair, confirm that the machines have not been tampered with. but even the government of my country is warning people in my country not to play on these illegal machines that are on the streets of the cities in my country

The people in my country are stubborn, and they keep playing on the machines that are in clandestine places, and in those places where the illegal machines are, there is no security, and there is no inspection of the machines, and they are machines that entered my country illegally and they didn't pay import taxes, so the people who play on those clandestine machines in my country lose money every day that I pass by that street. I see this, no one has the courage to report the clandestine machines because the owners of the machines bribe the police and whoever report tip being threatened, that's why people are afraid to report

In my opinion, when people want to play a game of chance, they should go and play at the casino, be it an online casino or a physical casino that has a license and security cameras and security at the casino and people should not go and play alone, always take friends and relatives that they are strong and responsible people because this way they protect themselves from thieves who are close to the casino. It's strange that the physical casinos in most countries are located on the streets where there are the highest cases of crime, I don't know why they don't put the police in those areas

When a local casino is known to be visited by people from other cities, they would need those guards and CCTVs to definitely monitor whoever comes and goes inside. They'll never know when bad guys strike. Or one gambler caught a cheater and it could easily turn into a fight.

In our local betshop where everyone knows who goes inside, there is no need for security guards. And everyone knows who the owner is, he is a high-rank police officer and owns the entire block.  

I don't know how the local betting shop's security is, maybe every shop will have tight security to protect consumers from any crime including robbery but still the risk is always there and suspicious people with bad intentions are always unpredictable so that's what you have to be aware of.

If there is no security at the local bookmaker that is near you then it will be less suspicious but I don't know how the mechanism is because and have never played gambling in traditionally, but if you say the local casino does not have any security it may be that the shop is small so there is no need for security even if there is acting up then anes as you thought.

Anywhere that money activities are been carried out, definitely they must provide safety for life and properties, I will even recommend strong security because a lot of activities are carried out, must of the gamblers are normally come with their phone to charge and in most cases their phones got stolen. The local bet shop close to me do not have any security and costumer are free to move around and their don't stop any activities that's transaction that have been done between costumer, they are only concern by the transaction between them and the costumers, they are also less concerned with any costumers missing items like phones, chargers etc.

Are local betting shops still operating with large amounts of cash these days? As far as I know, those local bet shops currently do have POS machines, and they also have business accounts through which they allow their customers to make deposits and place their bets.
 
Ordinarily, it does not make sense for someone to walk up to a local bet shop where you know you are not just the only one there and everyone is after money, and you are in there to bet with someone's dream money.
 
Unless the shop has upgraded to a mega bet shop, if not, I don't see the need for local security to be employed in a bet shop; it's just a personal decision anyway. As the shop doesn't promote violence and there are always security cameras everywhere, the only thing that I see in a local bet shop is arguments, but robbing others of their money, which I have not noticed in any of those shops within my locality.

It depends on each local betting shop. If they need securities, the local betting shop will use them. We also don't know whether these security members are people who dress like security officers or whether they are people who dress freely in disguise, so many people do not know their presence. This could be better because the securities could monitor the situation at the local betting shop, especially since no one knows who the securities are. Security personnel may be dressed as officers and others who go undercover to provide assistance or support. And if the local betting shop is still safe, the local betting shop will not add security members to its place or the security members will be placed in a hidden place. Additionally, local betting shops will have CCTV cameras to monitor the shop and its surroundings so they can act quickly if a crime occurs.