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A tiger kidnapping or tiger robbery is a crime in which an abduction
Abduction

Abduction may refer to:...
 forms part of a robbery
Robbery

Robbery is the crime of seizing property through violence or intimidation. At common law, robbery is defined as taking the property of another, with the intent to permanently deprive the person of that property, by means of force or fear....
. A person of importance to the victim is held hostage
Hostage

A hostage is a person or entity which is held by a captor. The original definition meant that this was handed over by one of two belligerent parties to the other or seized as security for the carrying out of an agreement, or as a preventive measure against certain acts of war....
 as collateral
Collateral (finance)

In loan agreement, collateral is a Borrower Pledge of specific property to a lender, to Secured loan repayment of a loan. The collateral serves as protection for a lender against a borrower's risk of default - that is, any borrower failing to pay the principal sum and interest under the terms of a loan obligation....
 until the victim has met the criminal's demands. It is called a tiger
Tiger

The tiger is a member of the Felidae family; the largest of the four "big cats" in the genus Panthera. Native to much of eastern and southern Asia, the tiger is an apex predator and an Carnivore#Obligate carnivores....
 kidnapping because of the predatory stalking
Stalking

Stalking is a controversial pejorative term applied to the behaviour of individuals towards others which has no universally accepted definition....
 that precedes it—the crime often requires considerable inside information about the target. Police have identified highly organised training camp
Training camp

A training camp is a place, usually with an army-camp-type environment, where people go to learn skills, usually skills involving physical action rather than book subjects, usually for an armed force or an action sport....
s that prepare potential tiger kidnappers; one witness stated that trainees operate so cohesively that they are comparable to a SWAT team.






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A tiger kidnapping or tiger robbery is a crime in which an abduction
Abduction

Abduction may refer to:...
 forms part of a robbery
Robbery

Robbery is the crime of seizing property through violence or intimidation. At common law, robbery is defined as taking the property of another, with the intent to permanently deprive the person of that property, by means of force or fear....
. A person of importance to the victim is held hostage
Hostage

A hostage is a person or entity which is held by a captor. The original definition meant that this was handed over by one of two belligerent parties to the other or seized as security for the carrying out of an agreement, or as a preventive measure against certain acts of war....
 as collateral
Collateral (finance)

In loan agreement, collateral is a Borrower Pledge of specific property to a lender, to Secured loan repayment of a loan. The collateral serves as protection for a lender against a borrower's risk of default - that is, any borrower failing to pay the principal sum and interest under the terms of a loan obligation....
 until the victim has met the criminal's demands. It is called a tiger
Tiger

The tiger is a member of the Felidae family; the largest of the four "big cats" in the genus Panthera. Native to much of eastern and southern Asia, the tiger is an apex predator and an Carnivore#Obligate carnivores....
 kidnapping because of the predatory stalking
Stalking

Stalking is a controversial pejorative term applied to the behaviour of individuals towards others which has no universally accepted definition....
 that precedes it—the crime often requires considerable inside information about the target. Police have identified highly organised training camp
Training camp

A training camp is a place, usually with an army-camp-type environment, where people go to learn skills, usually skills involving physical action rather than book subjects, usually for an armed force or an action sport....
s that prepare potential tiger kidnappers; one witness stated that trainees operate so cohesively that they are comparable to a SWAT team. The practice began as a twist on a tactic used by the Irish Republican Army
Provisional Irish Republican Army

The Provisional Irish Republican Army , is an Irish republican paramilitary organisation that considers itself a direct continuation of the Irish Republican Army that fought in the Irish War of Independence....
, which kidnapped people in order to coerce them into placing car bombs.

The first recorded crime that can be described as a tiger kidnapping occurred in 1972, but the term was coined in the 1980s and gained more widespread use in the following decade. Since tiger kidnapping is technically two crimes committed in tandem, statistics regarding their occurrence are difficult to compile. Tiger kidnappings have occurred in several jurisdictions, but are more common in the United Kingdom
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
, Ireland
Ireland

Ireland is the List of islands by area in Europe, and the twentieth-largest island in the world. It lies to the north-west of continental Europe and is surrounded by hundreds of islands and islet....
, and Belgium
Belgium

* A small German-speaking Community of Belgium exists in eastern Wallonia. Belgium's linguistic diversity and related political and cultural conflicts are reflected in the history of Belgium and a complex Communities and regions of Belgium....
. Examples include the Northern Bank robbery
Northern Bank robbery

The Northern Bank robbery was a large robbery of cash from the Donegall Square headquarters of the Northern Bank in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Carried out by a large, proficient group on 20 December 2004, the gang seized ?26.5 million in pounds sterling, making it one of the biggest bank robbery in UK history....
 and Bank of Ireland robbery. According to International Herald Tribune
International Herald Tribune

The International Herald Tribune is a widely read English language international newspaper. It combines the resources of its own correspondents with those of The New York Times and is printed at 33 sites throughout the world, for sale in more than 180 countries....
, tiger kidnappings "have become common in Ireland, a close-knit society where criminals can closely track their targets" and "they have typically involved thefts below €1 million." After the 2009 Bank of Ireland robbery
2009 Bank of Ireland robbery

The 2009 Bank of Ireland robbery was a large robbery of cash from the College Green cash centre of the Bank of Ireland in Dublin, Republic of Ireland, on 27 February 2009....
, Charlie Flanagan, a member of the Irish Parliament, remarked that “tiger kidnappings are taking place in Ireland... at a rate of almost one per week.”

Businesses can take several steps to guard against these such as mandating that two or more people must work in tandem in order to open sensitive areas such as bank vaults and cash boxes.

The movies Bandits
Bandits

Bandits is a 2001 in film comedy/crime/drama/romance movie directed by Barry Levinson. It stars Bruce Willis, Billy Bob Thornton, and Cate Blanchett....
 and Firewall
Firewall (film)

Firewall is a 2006 Action movie/Thriller film directed by Richard Loncraine and written by Joe Forte. Harrison Ford stars as Jack Stanfield, a security expert at a bank faced with a corporate merger and the offer of a new job....
 dramatize tiger kidnappings.