Updated On: 14 March, 2018 08:44 AM IST | Mumbai | Suraj Ojha
Cops decided to deploy this technique after over 15 cases of signal wire theft were registered in Central Railway's Mumbai division


Cops on ambush duty dress in plain clothes, put on a plastic bag and hide behind bushes and under parked trains
The Railway Protection Force (RPF) is not beating around the bush to catch culprits and curb cases of copper wire theft, but is ambushing them. The officials, often dressed in plain clothes as beggars or scrap collectors, have been hiding on the tracks to nab those trying to make a quick buck by stealing the precious copper wires, whose thefts end up disturbing the punctuality of trains.