Does your bank have armed guards?

I think just Brinks has armed guards when they come to pick up money from the bank. I won't deal with a bank that has armed guards in my country.

No and once I got up to the teller and this sketchy drifter was standing next to me asking for money. I didn't speak to the teller so I looked odd standing there, but I was waiting for her to do something, hit a panic button or whatever. I sure as hell wasn't going to write her a note and pass it under the glass alerting her to what was going on. lol It took her forever to realize why I was awkwardly standing there because I was not going to do a money transaction with that guy next to me. She finally told a male teller to come out and assist the man.

I haven't been inside a bank in at least 15 years, so I don't have any idea.

I only use the drive thru and online.

Mine does not, but there are two armed guards, outside the front and back doors, of our local Bank of America branch. They stand there all day long.

My credit union does not and has open desks for tellers BUT my old credit union and all major banks in my town and surrounding cities have armed guards and bullet proof glass teller inclosers. Been that way since 90's.

it has been awhile since I've been inside a bank, but the last one I went into i remember a guy in a suit standing by the door. I don't know if he was armed or not.

My personal banking isn't done locally, but I have accounts at some local banks for organizations where I occasionally need to do transactions. All the ones around my office have armed guards (affluent neighborhood, for the record). I used to work at a bank 5 miles away that did not have armed security.

My personal bank does not. My best running friend is the CFO of a local bank chain and the branch her office is at does have an UNarmed guard.

Banks want robbers to get in and out as soon as possible. The security is only there to protect personal safety, not to try and stop an in progress robbery.

The one we use now doesn't. But back in the 90s my husband worked as an armed guard for Pinkerton. He was posted at a bank, then a gated community with a very high profile resident, and finally a high rise building that housed an international oil company.

He enjoyed the job , but was happy to move on to something else after the oil company changed contractors. It's a high stress occupation.

I rarely actually go in my bank. Lol I know my old bank did. Its a local large credit union. I changed banks last summer and haven’t been inside the new one since I set up the account.

I used to work at a bank and we did not have a guard. Our branch had been robbed before I worked there and my coworker was assaulted by the robber. I can't say how that situation would have been different had there been an armed guard, but I will admit that my opinion is that it would have turned out worse, with someone dead or much more injured than my coworker had been.

I don't go into my branch bank very often, so I don't know if they have an armed guard or not.  

Just about all the larger churches around here have an armed guard.  They are usually off duty police officers.  

I know there is a few here that do. Our credit union had one stand out in the lobby he is to the side so you don't see him when you first walk in.