Security Smoke Screen stamps out Dublin robbery

A daring daylight robbery on a jewellers on Dublin's Lower Dorset Street has been stopped by a recently installed security smoke system.

Just after 6pm on the 22nd November, a hooded man wielding an iron bar kicked in the front door of the shop. Proprietor Martin Gear immediately set off the panic alarm, activating the Smoke Screen system which burst into action, filling the shop full of dense, non-toxic, no residue fog, forcing the intruder back out the store.

There was unavoidably some damage to the shop door and fittings, but nobody was harmed, very little taken and Mr Gear can continue to trade.

'Very terrifying, it's a sign of the times, people are becoming increasingly desperate for money, especially in the run up to Christmas,' Martin remarked. 'There have been a lot of robberies within the Irish jewellery business. The Smoke Screen is the best investment I have made in the shop. It saved my life. The machine has paid for itself ten times over,' he continued.

The security smoke system was supplied by UK-based experts Concept Smoke Screen and installed by Real Security, aided by Concept's agent in Ireland, Eamon Canavan. Concept Smoke Screen aim to stamp out this kind of violent daytime robbery with their ultimate loss prevention solution. Check out the CCTV footage on our video blog.