11 arrested, 33 reported, approximately 37.000 people checked: this is the result of the activity of the Railway Police of the Department for the month of August. Campania in the main stations and on board trains.
With the approach of the summer season, in fact, the services and controls in the railway stations have been strengthened for a total of 1014 surveillance services in the stations which, in synergy with the video surveillance systems, with latest generation technologies, have guaranteed a high level of safety.
The anti-pickpocketing services implemented have also contributed significantly to ensuring the repression of predatory crimes which, especially in the summer season, target unaware tourists.
Among the activities to be reported in particular, personnel from the Judicial Police Squad of the Railway Police Department for Campania, engaged in an anti-pickpocketing operation, arrested red-handed for the crime of aggravated theft a 45-year-old Neapolitan with a criminal record.
Specifically, the plainclothes police officers, inside the Circumvesuviana station in Naples Piazza Garibaldi, where there was a notable influx of tourists and travellers headed to Sorrento, blending in with the crowd of people waiting on the sidewalk, immediately noticed the man who, with a suspicious manner, was wandering around scrutinising people and luggage.
The same man then boarded the train to Sorrento with the tourists; monitored remotely by the police, before the Pompei Scavi stop, taking advantage of the crowd to get off at that station, he stole the wallet of a Venezuelan tourist, kept inside her bag.
At that point the police intervened, arresting him and recovering the stolen goods, which were then returned to the victim.
On August 8, at Naples Central Station, personnel from the Naples Central Operations Department, during routine station control services, arrested a 41-year-old Neapolitan with a criminal record and a 33-year-old Algerian with a criminal record for robbery and malicious bodily harm.
The robbery victim, a 38-year-old man from Salerno, was approached outside the station, near a fast food restaurant. Three people approached him in a friendly manner, asking for his cell phone to make a call, and then walked away with the cell phone.
Realizing the “scam”, the victim chased one of the two men trying to recover the phone but was attacked by them. One of the robbers, the Algerian, was immediately stopped by the police officers who intervened; the second, recognized through video surveillance cameras, was tracked down shortly after inside the station; the third, a Russian citizen, managed to escape, but was later located, identified and reported for the same crimes.
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