CAPE TOWN – Metrorail has rolled out superior surveillance cameras in recognized scorching spots areas.
The rail community and members of the police’s railway security unit briefed the group security standing committee on its commuter security methods within the provincial legislature as we speak.
Metrorail’s Richard Walker says the community may also look to determine a criminal offense intelligence company to research acts of vandalism.
No less than 19 carriages have been torched in three weeks in Cape City, Esplanade and Kraaifontein final month.
Walker provides the CCTV installations shall be phased out to different areas within the coming months.
“Crimes or vandalism and arson inside the rail is precedence, it’s a state asset. We want to see extra focus when it comes to intelligence, as a result of with early detection we will forestall the place a practice is burning versus coping with it afterwards. We want to see extra work on intelligence.”
(Edited by Masechaba Sefularo)