The weekend of the State Police on trains and in stations: 14.000 identified, of which 7 arrested and 64 suspects
13.901 controlled persons, of which 7 arrested and 64 investigated: this is the balance of the checks carried out by the Railway Police over the weekend. 1.547 patrols at the station and 369 on board the train; 745 escorted railway trains. 90 anti-pickage services in civilian clothes to counteract theft to the detriment of travelers. 62 the total of high fines, 44 foreigners tracked down in an irregular position and 6 unaccompanied minors tracked down by the staff of the Specialty and returned to families or placed in the community.
In particular, the Agents of the Milan Railway Police arrested a 26-year-old citizen of Libya for attempted theft in competition with another subject who was unknown. The stranger was surprised by a traveler while rummaging in his backpack. Immediately blocked by the victim, he was then arrested by the Operators, while his accomplice fled. Also at the Milan Railway Station, an 41-year-old Italian was arrested for dealing psychotropic substances against a young man of 23. During a surveillance service, Polfer agents noticed the two young men, who on their view they are hastily dismissed. Reached by the Operators, it emerged that one of the two had just purchased 30 tablets of a powerful anxiolytic and anti-epileptic drug considered as the new street drug or heroin of the poor, for a fee of 20 euros from the man with whom he had been seen talking. The same, with specific precedents, has been arrested. Staff of the Bussoleno Railway Police Station arrested two Italian citizens who were responsible for aggravated theft in competition on a regional train bound for Bardonecchia. The offenders, two nineteen year old residents in the Turin area, arbitrarily entered the tail pilot of the convoy and, after rummaging through the suitcase supplied to the head of the train, took possession of some of his personal effects of considerable value. As soon as he became aware of the theft, the head of the train reported the incident to the Operating Room of the Polfer compartment for Piedmont and Valle d'Aosta which immediately activated the agents of the Polfer of Bussoleno. Upon arrival of the convoy in the station, the operators promptly alerted, managed to stop the perpetrators of the theft and recover the stolen objects. The young people, accompanied at the Police Offices, by thorough investigations were found to be burdened by numerous police records for crimes against the person and for crimes relating to drugs. The Genoa Brignole Railway Police reported three Albanian citizens, two minors and the third barely 18 years old, who attempted to rob a young boy of his own gold necklace in front of the train station. The timely intervention of the Operators made it possible to block two of the three attackers while the third managed to escape. Through the vision and analysis of the video surveillance images present in the station area and subsequent investigative checks and findings, the Railway Police has also managed to trace the identity of the third party. The Polfer of Ancona reported a Cameroonian citizen in a state of freedom for the crimes of refusal of generality, false attestation of identity, resistance and abusive port of objects capable of offending.
The non-EU citizen who traveled on board a regional train without a ticket, after falsely declaring his name to the head of train during the regularization, then resisted and threatened the operators of the Railway Police who intervened on the arrival of the convoy at the Ancona station . At the Roma Ostiense railway station, Polfer denounced an Italian citizen, burdened by the obligation to stay in the Municipality of Catania, for the theft that occurred against an employee of the Italian Railway Network at the waiting room of the Tuscolana FS Station. Thanks to the vision of the images of the camera system, the Agents were able to trace not only the author of the theft of the victim's laptop and cell phone, but also of the one to whom he delivered part of the stolen goods, reported for receiving stolen goods. Also the Railway Police of Rome, in the Tiburtina station, sanctioned two street vendors from Campania, father and son, with the consequent administrative seizure of the goods and dismissed with the prohibition of returning for one year to the Municipality of Rome. In Naples, the investigating judge of the Court, with an innovative provision, ordered the transfer to the San Giuseppe Moscati Parish Community San Gennaro al Vomero of several counterfeit vests seized by the Neapolitan city Railway Police. In particular, the Magistrate, after ordering the removal of the labels of a well-known brand on them, ordered that they be delivered to the most needy, instead of going to the pulp.
Among the stories with a happy ending, in Rome a ninety-year-old man was tracked down by the Polfer agents in the Tiburtina station, while, in an evident state of need, he asked for help. The elder said he spent the night away from home because he had lost the bus with which to return to the structure where he was staying in the province of Matera. The agents, learned that the same could not warn the family as in dispute with them, provided him with sustenance so that he could face the return trip. Refreshed and comforted by Polfer Operators, the elderly managed to reach the nursing home without discomfort.