Published: 22nd April 2015
vellore : Senior police officers of the Government Railway Police (GRP) and Railway Protection Force in the four southern States met in Vellore on Tuesday, with a view to increasing the safety and security of passengers in the aftermath of the three passengers being robbed of over 15 sovereign of gold on the Bangalore-Chennai Mail yesterday.
Officers of the GRP of Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka along with officers attached to the seven divisions of the RPF - Chennai, Salem, Trichy, Kerala, Bangalore, Gundakkal and Vijayawada met to implement measures for preventing and detecting offences and strengthening security on tracks adjoining interstate borders: Jolarpet-Bangarupet, Arakkonam-Reinkunta, Chennai Central-Gudur, Gundakal-Viajayawada and Coimbatore-Palgat.
“We have shared information about active criminals indulging in property offences in moving trains in the night hours. We will share and compile a complete database of all the criminals operating in all the four southern states. It will help us prevent property offences and help nab the accused at the earliest,” SP Vijayakumar told Express, after chairing the meeting at the District Police Office in Vellore.
Details of 500 interstate criminals were shared . “We shared details of around 300 criminals. Similarly, officials of the three other State police have also shared information with us,” he said. The Criminal Intelligence Wing of the RPF will also share information with the GRP.
“A complete database of the criminals will help us study and analyse their modus operandi. We have also decided to meet periodically. The next meeting will be hosted by the Railway Police District of Karnataka in the last week of May,” he said.
The meeting paved the way for real-time communication and coordination between departments and offices of the GRP of the southern states and between cyber-cell units of railway police districts.
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