AIDS organisation burglarised…again
On Wednesday night, the Alliance Against AIDS was once again burglarised. Sometime during the night, a thief or thieves cut through the locks of an attic window. Once inside, the perpetrators stole three computers and other electronic equipment valued at eighteen thousand dollars and left by breaking the locks on the back door. This morning, a frustrated Rodel Beltran Perera, Director of A.A.A., told News Five how this latest incident will affect the work of the organization.
Rodel Beltran Perera, Dir., Alliance Against AIDS
“I don’t know what we need to do. We are enforcing our facilities, we are putting up more burglar bars, we hope install in a burglar system, but I don’t know, I don’t know if those things would work.”
Janelle Chanona
“You said yourself, you’ve lost count, are you in a bad building, you are easy target, what makes you such a frequent visitor?”
Rodel Beltran Perera
“I think we are in all those things Janelle. I think people do think of us, see us, I mean we don’t keep money here anymore because of the previous break-ins.”
“So we only keep our equipment here and now we’ve lost all our equipment. Two, we are in a very challenging neighbourhood. I think in the neighbourhood there are hot spots and the authorities know this.”
“Those equipment that they did make off with contains very vital information for us. All our accounting systems, other files that are very important to us, not only to us as an agency but to people that access our services. So that information is extremely important and vital to us and I would really want to ask anybody out there?I know there are people that do provide these computers, these computers would end up at their workshop, if there is any computer service organisations or computer agents, please take a look at three possible black or dark grey DELL computers that could indicate that it belongs to us, to the Alliance. We would really like them back because all our work is in there.”
If you have any information that may assist in the recovery of the items belonging to the Alliance Against AIDS, please contact the organisation or the nearest police station.
