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The ISM safes are probably regarded as one of the best safes in the world. The materials used make drilling and cutting very difficult, the relockers are easy to trigger. They are very well engineered, precisely assembled. I've only seen one in real life.

http://www.empiresafe.com/uploads/0000/0133/ISM_Diamond_Scan.pdf

It's the kind of high end safe only high end safe engineers get to work on.

I've found most police to be well informed. It's security guards who are morons.

If you are just a normal locksmith or safe engineer, you generally have access to a series of templates and diagrams that will help you find where to drill the lock. If you encounter something new, you add it to your list.

An example template for an S&G 3 wheel lock: http://i.imgur.com/GBvp2Iy.jpg

Cheap electronic safes are a waste of time. Nearly all of them have a mechanical override lock which can be opened easily.

Good electronic locks, like the Kaba Mas X-09 (http://www.kaba-mas.com/Kaba-Brand/Products/366458/x-09.html) make brute forcing impossible, which means bypass or drilling is required.

The problem with electronic locks is that you can't just open it up and understand it like you can with a mechanical combination lock. You have no way of validating if it has bugs or backdoors.

For those interested, I suspect this is the report:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/lpi7f0qse1gvpkw/Robbing%20banks.pdf