History has been made in Denmark where it is the first time that no bank robbery has been recorded in the country for an entire year.
Finance Workers Union Vice President Stan Responding to this positive situation, Lund Olsen said that the rapidly growing trend of a cashless society has forced banks to reduce their cash-related services, thereby opening up potential opportunities for robbers to loot. There are very few left.
He expressed his pleasant surprise that there was no bank robbery throughout the year, saying that it is no less than a great surprise because whenever such an incident occurs. If this happens, the employees on the spot go through severe mental stress. As long as you can You don't go through such situations yourself.
The Finance Workers Union said that in the year 2000, there were 221 bank robberies in the country, which gradually decreased to one per year after 2017. Less than 10 remained.
According to data from Finance Denmark, there was only one bank robbery in Denmark in 2021.
Bank robberies have been on a steady decline since 2000, when there were 221 robberies, nearly every day that banks were open. )
Denmark's central bank reported in March last year that the use of cash will almost halve from 23 percent of payments in 2017 to 12 percent in 2021.
Bloomberg, citing data from the central bank, reported that cash withdrawals in the country have fallen by about 75 percent over the past six years, the central bank said, even during the Covid-19 pandemic. The process of abandoning the use of cash accelerated. Ranked among the 10 countries, it was the second happiest country on the list after Finland in the World Happiness Index report in 2022.
The Finance Workers Union said that the country Armed robberies have become less and less, but many bank employees who were robbed in their presence are still suffering the terrible consequences of this situation, some of them are still anxious, depressed, irritable. Suffering from painful problems like anxiety, restlessness and insomnia.