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In the twelvemonth 2025, the Railway Protection Force (RPF) of Salem Division rescued 490 children, including kid trafficking victims.
In a release, the RPF said that successful 2024, the RPF rescued 355 children, which accrued successful 2025 and promptly handed them implicit to the Child Welfare Committee for rehabilitation and household reunification. In 2025, a spike successful mobile telephone thefts astatine Salem Junction prompted the deployment of body-worn cameras and precocious integer forensic methods. Through CCTV analysis, UPI transaction tracking, and telephone item grounds examination, RPF unit traced the suspects to Katpadi and arrested 4 members of an inter-State Noniya pack from Jharkhand.
Sixty stolen mobile phones were recovered, and the accused confessed to trafficking implicit 200 further devices to different States.
With progressive coordination involving narcotics power and different instrumentality enforcement agencies, narcotics worthy ₹4.88 crore were seized successful 2024, starring to the apprehension of 22 accused. In 2025, seizures accrued to ₹5.84 crore, with 65 accused arrested and handed implicit to the acrophobic agencies. CCTV cameras were installed astatine each large stations nether the Salem Division. Proposals are besides underway to widen CCTV sum on susceptible way sections to deter imaginable transgression activity, the property merchandise added.
