RPF stages skit to educate passengers
The Railway Protection Force personnel staging a skit at the Coimbatore Junction on Friday to educate passengers on the safety of their belongings.Railway Protection Force (RPF) personnel on Friday staged a skit at the Coimbatore Junction to educate the public on their safety while on travel and on gangs that befriend and drug co-passengers before robbing them of their belongings.A six-member team of the RPF is visiting important stations across the Southern Railway (where there is heavy passenger traffic, besides origination and termination of trains) under instructions from the Inspector-General of Police, RPF, G.M.P. Reddy.RPF has already conducted such awareness camps on accidents at unmanned level crossings.The team comprises RPF personnel chosen from various railway divisions to spread the message in different areas with different languages.In Coimbatore region, Divisional Railway Security Commissioner Jyoti Kumar Satija and Assistant Security Commissioner Morris Fernandez made arrangements for the team to stage the skits on the platforms in Coimbatore, Erode and Salem railway stations on Friday.At the Coimbatore Junction, the programme was conducted by RPF Inspector N. Kesavadas and Sub-Inspector G. Vijayakumar.
The trained RPF personnel staged a skit for 15 minutes and it largely focussed on the modus operandi of the criminals lifting luggage from the passengers fast asleep on running trains.It also focussed on the carelessness and vulnerability of the passengers and how these gangsters befriend them and win their confidence.The need for rejecting food offered by strangers was also stressed. The skit focussed on the ‘dos and don’ts’ to be adhered to by the passengers while travelling.The capsule also narrated how the gangs wait at the dead end of the platforms to snatch chains, wrist watches and other valuable items through the window from the passengers on moving trains.
