Staff at petrol station in Bristol sought refuge in a safe room after a man entered the premises wielding a knife https://www.itv.com/news/westcountry/2021-09-09/attempted-murder-arrest-after-knife-attack-at-bristol-petrol-station The man, thought to be in his 50s, was detained and then arrested by Avon & Somerset police on suspicion of attempted murder. Commenting on the attack, Paul Weldon, managing director of The [...]
When the oil tanker ‘Nave Andromeda’ came under a suspected hijack whilst idling off the coast of the Isle of Wight, there was only one organisation to call – the Special Boat Service (SBS). Around 16 SBS commandos boarded the ship and implemented a textbook operation to rescue the crew and capture the hijack which [...]
Forget panic buying toilet roll and hand soap, the way to tackle the coronavirus is with a luxurious home bunker or a ‘germ-free’ panic room according to the multi-millionaires of this world https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/mar/6/deluxe-home-bunkers-vip-emergency-rooms-how-the-ri/ The super-rich are choosing to self-isolate and protect themselves in their home bunkers and panic and safe rooms as the number of [...]
A “new breed of professional thief” is targeting the wealthy suburbs of London and the Home Counties. ‘Burglary tourism’ poses the latest risk to residents in these areas with high profile victims including top chef, Marcus Wareing and his wife, falling foul of crime. Burglary tourism sees gangs of criminals, predominantly from South America, flying [...]
Thieves have once again targeted a property on ‘Billionaires’ Row’ in Kensington this time stealing £50 million pounds worth of jewellery from Formula 1 heiress, Tamara Ecclestone https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-50806902 The burglary took place just hours after Ecclestone and her husband and their daughter had left the UK for Switzerland for their Christmas holidays. Even with 24-hour [...]
Thieves have stolen over £1million worth of jewellery, cash and designer clothes from a house in Hampstead, one of London’s most expensive places to live, while a mother and her children were inside. https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/thieves-steal-1m-of-jewellery-from-north-london-mansion-while-mother-and-children-at-home-a4290291.html Detectives have called the burglary “brazen” as the intruders scaled a wall and ransacked the property close to ‘Billonaires’ Row’ with [...]
Founded in 2010 by Paul Weldon, The Panic Room Company has pioneered the design, specification, manufacture and installation of affordable panic and safe rooms in the UK and across the world. Almost 10 years later and the company remains at the forefront of protecting people and assets across the globe as the original (and still [...]
Huge thanks tour French agent, Pascal Tenand, and the team at Breizh-info.com, an online magazine based in the west of France, for covering the topic of 'home jacking' and why investing in a panic room is such a good idea https://www.breizh-info.com/2019/04/13/116147/securite-du-domicile-face-a-un-home-jacking-pourquoi-etablir-une-panic-room-chez-soi
When you’re the billionaire founder and CEO of one of the world’s most popular social media platforms, personal security when you’re at work and at home is a top priority. So much so, it’s rumoured that Mark Zuckerberg may have a secret ‘panic chute’ in a conference room in the middle of the space near [...]
As part of the design and specification process of our panic rooms, safe rooms and nuclear shelters, here at The Panic Room Company we will often create a CGI video of an individual project. By generating a CGI, we are able to offer our clients a virtual tour of their bespoke panic room or nuclear [...]