Cape Town – City of Cape Town Rail Enforcement and Metal Theft Unit officers have arrested two women in connection with the removal of palisade fencing along a railway line in Kalksteenfontein.

The officers had received a tip-off at about noon on Wednesday that palisade fencing was being stored at a house in Bonteheuwel.

"Upon arrival at the location, they found six sections of metal fencing in the front of a house," said Dyason.

"It was established that the fencing was stolen at Netreg station."

Dyason said the two women were taken to the Bishop Lavis police station and charged with possession of stolen property and in terms of the Criminal Matters Amendment Act."