Thieves have made off with more than TT$1.3 mil­lion af­ter break­ing in­to an RBC Au­to­mat­ic Teller Ma­chine (ATM) in St Clair.

The RBC branch man­ag­er re­port­ed to po­lice that around 9 am yes­ter­day she re­ceived in­for­ma­tion from the Elec­tron­ic Re­sponse Of­fi­cer that there was un­usu­al ac­tiv­i­ty at the St Clair ATM.

Up­on ar­rival around 10 am, the branch man­ag­er opened the ATM Room and found that the two ATMs were cut open and cash trays were thrown on the floor void of any cash.

The man­ag­er re­port­ed the find­ings to of­fi­cers at the St Clair Po­lice Sta­tion and po­lice said the es­ti­mat­ed loss was around $1.3 mil­lion in TT cur­ren­cy.

Woman Po­lice Con­sta­ble Parks vis­it­ed the scene and found that en­try in­to the ATMs was gained through a hole on the west­ern side of the build­ing, which they be­lieve was al­so used as ex­it.

PCs Dhu­ram, Sama­roo, Den­ny and WPC Pier­era processed the scene.

In­ves­ti­ga­tors said at­tempts to get CCTV footage were fu­tile as the cam­eras at the lo­ca­tion were non-func­tion­al.

RBC is yet to of­fi­cial­ly re­spond to the break-in.