Cops to be Deployed on All Long-Distance Trains in City

Security Measures Tightened After Two Recent Robberies on Board Trains Entering/Leaving Mumbai

- Megha Sood

MUMBAI: Two recent robberies on board long-distance trains in the city have prompted the Government Railway Police (GRP) to step up patrolling and vigilance activities and crack down on gangs involved in luggage, jewellery and mobile phone theft. The GRP has launched a special campaign to trace mobile phones stolen over the past five years besides deploying personnel in long-distance trains, said Rakesh Kalasagar, railway police commissioner.

"Thirty-one long-distance trains leave Mumbai everyday," Kalasagar said on Sunday. "From now on, two railway police personnel will be deployed in each of these trains. They will patrol the entire train and protect passengers up to the limits of the railway police commissionerate, which will curb criminal activities."

On June 1, knife-wielding robbers targeted a Jogeshwari-based family travelling via the Jaipur-Bandra Terminus Superfast Express after the train crossed Borivali and camped off with a trolley bag containing cash and valuables worth ₹7 lakh.