Today, according to the official data of online edition “Odessit.ua”, a woman of 54 years age came to militsiya department in district Suvorovski and informed law enforcement authorities about disorderly conduct in the condominium where she lives. A few strangers dismantled metal elevator doors and a video surveillance camera in the front. Militsiya officers spent a day investigating this case. Consequently two inhabitants from Odessa were taken under arrest. Young men of 28 years age admitted that they’d stolen metal elevator doors and video surveillance camera to the address during investigation. When they were asked what reasons coerced them to do that, they refered to work difficulties. The head of press-center of Head Ministry of Internal Affairs made an announcement that both malefactors are going to be imprisoned for the committed crime.

As information agency “Week’s arguments of Crimea” says, a new modern passenger lift with carrying capacity of 400 kg is going to be put into operation in the port hospital of Kerch city. The cost of the lift is 543,000 hryvnia. It’s important to emphasize that 50,000 hryvnia of the fund are taken from local budgets as a subsidy. The issue on lift installation has been raised after the visit of Alexander Kanevsky, a Minister of Health of the Crimea. While meeting local authorities, he reiterated the need for lift installation in hospitals where disabled people and veterans are treated.

Crimes in lifts happen more and more frequently in the present days. All missed calls that have been directed towards law enforcement authorities eventually turn into a real hubbub and require more advertence to security conditions. None can be sure in his or her safeness while walking into the lift.

Information agency “RegioNews” broke the news according to which on the 9th of March militsiya department of Kremenchug city was informed about an unprecedented rape. A case took place in a condominium of district Molodezhnyi. A maniac followed a girl to the lift and raped her there threatening with a knife. It was already the second case in the last few weeks in Kremenchug city. A month ago militsiya held an offender who was suspected in five cases of rape. Considering such crime rate, it’s important to take all possible measures to protect yourself. You shouldn’t  walk in the lift with unknown people. Before actually walking into the lift, it’s important to make sure that there’s nobody in the porch who looks suspicious.

According to the portal “Ukrainian newspaper.com”, on the 14th of March as a result of an accident, two districts of Zhitmor city (Kroshnya and Boguniya) were left without power. As local media informed, this accident happened at about 11 o'clock. 359 lifts simultaneously stopped to work. To make things worse, at that time 46 people were trapped in lift cabins! They had to wait for a few hours until lift operators managed to get them out. Additional emergency crews had to be involved to release people from “lift traps”. However, according to preliminary data, there was no harm done.

Building society that basically owns these lifts has informed about necessity to replace all lift components and parts which failed due to this accident. Most parts unfortunately cannot be repaired.

Today power is already back. Government authorities and technical lift service companies are in charge of all repairing works. To learn more about this case and financing of lifts on a whole, read the next issue of the magazine “Lift Expert”.