The South Eastern Railway's Railway Protection Force ( RPF) personnel have been playing a significant role in providing security to passengers as well as in guarding railway property and its vital installations, as suggested by Railway data.

According to the records, in December the RPF conducted regular drives against miscreants involved in theft of passenger belongings.

During the month of December, a total number of 31 miscreants were arrested under the Railway Property (Unlawful Possession) Act, 1966 and property worth Rs 21 lakh was recovered from Tatanagar, Ranchi, Rourkela and several other railway stations under SER zone.

Moreover, 300 offenders were booked under different sections of the Railways Act and Rs 97,575 was realised as fine from Chakradharpur, Ranchi and Kharagpur divisions.

Regular drives were also conducted by RPF and commercial department and 688 ticketless travellers were caught and Rs 2,09,960 was realised as fine.

The records further show that 34 left-behind luggage of passengers were recovered by the RPF during the month and 21 cases of smoking in train were detected by RPF under the Tobacco Act and fines amounting to Rs.4,200 were realised.

Apart from this, RPF personnel of South Eastern Railway have taken active part to conduct 145 cleanliness drives and also removed 51 encroachments at various divisions, including Ranchi and Chakradharpur under SER jurisdiction.

They have also rescued six minor boys and 23 minor girls in December, who were handed over to their relatives with proper verification and acknowledgement.