Police slam PRASA on rail safety
27 September 2018
A top police officer has blamed the Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (PRASA) for the lack of safety on Cape Town's trains.
Briefing Parliament's standing committee on community safety on Wednesday, SAPS representative Brigadier Bonginkosi Solucutho said one of the police's challenges was that CCTV cameras on stations were not seen as a priority by PRASA.
"Cameras are off since 2015. On platforms there are no cameras," he said.
Other challenges which hindered police work included a lack of fencing and little or no access control to stations; no communication from PRASA to commuters about train cancellations and delays; and overcrowding on the trains as a result of shorter train sets.