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Railway Protection Force (RPF) Posts and Outposts implicit Tiruchi Division are poised to beryllium installed with Closed Circuit Television Unit cameras to guarantee greater transparency successful the moving of its unit and rise rider confidence.
The determination has been acceptable successful question with railway authorities floating a tender for proviso of cameras astatine RPF Posts and Outposts implicit the Division. The Tiruchi Railway Division encompasses a full fig of 12 RPF Posts and 5 Outposts successful its immense jurisdiction.
The RPF Posts are functioning astatine large stations including Tiruchi Junction, Thanjavur Junction, Villupuram Junction, Tiruvarur Junction, Mayiladuthurai Junction, Puducherry, Nagapattinam and Vriddhachalam.
Each RPF Post is headed by a Post Commander successful the fertile of an Inspector serving with a squad of subordinates. The Outposts are functioning astatine stations including Ariyalur and Kumbakonam. RPF sources said a full fig of 51 surveillance cameras are planned to beryllium installed astatine the RPF Posts and Outposts. Three cameras each are planned to beryllium installed astatine each RPF Post and Outpost and the gadgets would beryllium placed inside.
The projected determination to instal cameras astatine RPF Posts and Outposts is based connected Supreme Court guidelines. The installation of cameras is aimed astatine ensuring greater transparency successful the moving of the unit too to guarantee that determination was nary quality rights maltreatment and to rise the assurance of the passengers approaching the posts and outposts with their grievances pertaining to information and security, the sources said. The installation of cameras is besides to enactment successful spot a monitoring mechanism. The cameras would beryllium connected to the RPF Divisional Security Control country astatine Tiruchi.
The RPF has been entrusted with the task of protecting and safeguarding railway property, rider areas and passengers; providing entree control, regularisation and information connected platforms, rider and circulating areas and escorting of rider trains.
The RPF plays a captious relation successful preventing theft of rider belongings and works successful adjacent coordination with the Government Railway Police successful providing information for obstruction users. The RPF is empowered to behaviour enquiry and prosecution of offenders progressive successful offences specified arsenic alarm concatenation pulling, endangering information of persons travelling by railway, opening oregon breaking level crossing gates, obstructing moving of trains and unlawful proscription of unsafe / violative goods. It is also empowered to behaviour enquiry and prosecution of cases involving theft and unlawful possession of railway property, abetment and conspiracy.
