Cautionary note: Stash your cash before you board a train next time
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Chennai:29.08.2019
The next time you clutch your bag of cash and jewellery tightly and refuse to put it down even when you go to the loo during a train journey, remember you could be alerting thieves that there’s loot for the taking.
The government railway police (GRP), who held a function in the city on Wednesday to return valuables they had recovered, said cash and gold jewellery are what train passengers lose the most on their journeys.
Stealing mobile phones may be easier, but selling them is not as lucrative as disposing of cash or gold jewellery. Stealing laptops, mostly carried by single men on business trips, is the least lucrative for thieves, a GRP officer said, citing difficulty in disposing of electronic items.
A GRP officer said the thieves observe the body language of the passengers to choose their targets. People often don’t wear much gold during train journeys, but instead carry the jewellery in a bag that they tend to carry whereever they go, even to the toilet, and sleep with it under their heads. The same passengers will leave phones lying around unattended.
An officer said many thieves strike when the passengers are sleeping. Or they befriend them and make away with the valuables when the opportunity arises.
The GRP recovered ₹2.58 lakh in cash, 257 sovereigns of gold jewellery valued at ₹65 lakh and 336 mobile phones from 157 accused in theft and robbery cases in Chennai and Trichy railway police districts since 2018.
To improve security on trains and at railway stations, DGP C Sylendra Babu said CCTV cameras would be set up and awareness would be created among the passengers on how to stay safe. On Wednesday, 233 people who had lost valuables got them back at function at the Railway Marriage Hall in Egmore in the presence of V Vanitha, inspector general (railways).
The police personnel who were part of the special teams to nab the accused were also rewarded.
HUGE HAUL: Government railway police (GRP) during a function in the city on Wednesday to return stolen valuables they had recovered. They say cash and gold jewellery are what train passengers lose the most on their journeys
A GRP officer said thieves observe the body language of passengers before striking
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Chennai:29.08.2019
The next time you clutch your bag of cash and jewellery tightly and refuse to put it down even when you go to the loo during a train journey, remember you could be alerting thieves that there’s loot for the taking.
The government railway police (GRP), who held a function in the city on Wednesday to return valuables they had recovered, said cash and gold jewellery are what train passengers lose the most on their journeys.
Stealing mobile phones may be easier, but selling them is not as lucrative as disposing of cash or gold jewellery. Stealing laptops, mostly carried by single men on business trips, is the least lucrative for thieves, a GRP officer said, citing difficulty in disposing of electronic items.
A GRP officer said the thieves observe the body language of the passengers to choose their targets. People often don’t wear much gold during train journeys, but instead carry the jewellery in a bag that they tend to carry whereever they go, even to the toilet, and sleep with it under their heads. The same passengers will leave phones lying around unattended.
An officer said many thieves strike when the passengers are sleeping. Or they befriend them and make away with the valuables when the opportunity arises.
The GRP recovered ₹2.58 lakh in cash, 257 sovereigns of gold jewellery valued at ₹65 lakh and 336 mobile phones from 157 accused in theft and robbery cases in Chennai and Trichy railway police districts since 2018.
To improve security on trains and at railway stations, DGP C Sylendra Babu said CCTV cameras would be set up and awareness would be created among the passengers on how to stay safe. On Wednesday, 233 people who had lost valuables got them back at function at the Railway Marriage Hall in Egmore in the presence of V Vanitha, inspector general (railways).
The police personnel who were part of the special teams to nab the accused were also rewarded.
HUGE HAUL: Government railway police (GRP) during a function in the city on Wednesday to return stolen valuables they had recovered. They say cash and gold jewellery are what train passengers lose the most on their journeys
A GRP officer said thieves observe the body language of passengers before striking
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