South Africa: Everything's Just Fine, Say Railway Police in Response to Damning Prasa Letter

10 October 2017

"Rapid Rail Police management at national unit and local level is not aware of any dissatisfaction from PRASA," Captain Joyce Ramohale of the Railway Police, told GroundUp on Friday.

This was in response to the damning letter by Ernest Hendricks', Regional Security Manager of the Western Cape, to Tiro Holele, an executive at the Passenger Rail Service of South Africa (PRASA) head office in Pretoria. In the letter, dated 31 May 2017, Hendricks claimed that the deteriorating relationship between the Railway Police and PRASA security was one of the many reasons for increased vandalism, cable theft and unsafe conditions on trains.

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