Crimes on public transport * UK - In England 'cost £1.5bn'
There were more than half a million crimes on public transport in a year
London,EN,UK -BBC News -21 July 2010: ... According to the figures Crimes on public transport in England cost an estimated £1.5bn a year, according to government figures... The total is calculated from the cost of repairing vandalism, the money spent taking alleged offenders through the legal system and spending on measures intended to prevent crime... And on buses and trams, more than 131,000 offences occurred... The research, which has just been released, was conducted by the Department for Transport in 2008. The researchers also asked passengers how safe they felt on public transport... The report suggested people were reassured when staff were visible on transport networks but were unclear exactly what these employees did or whether they would be able to deter crime or deal with serious matters... The issues which made passengers feel insecure or uncomfortable included broken glass at bus shelters, stations with a great deal of litter or bus stops with poor lighting... (AP Photo: A Police office at King Cross station tube... There were more than 77,000 reported and recorded cases of crime on railways and London Underground over 12 months)* UK - Bus & Train passengers: Face 35 sex attacks a day
London,EN,UK -Buzz7/The Sun -July 21, 2010: -- A secret report has revealed that bus passengers are subjected to 35 sex attacks a day on Britain”s public transport network... Shock figures reveal that in one 12-month period alone there were 12,646 sexually motivated assaults. There were also 92,795 attacks and beatings – the equivalent of 254 a day... Nearly 65,000 were committed against passengers and 28,000 against staff... In the same period there were 150,000 robberies and thefts and 200,000 acts of vandalism... The huge crime wave – costing taxpayers 1.5 billion pounds a year – was exposed in a report that Labour ministers ordered but then failed to publish... Lib Dem Transport Minister, Norman Baker, finally published the dossier, covering 2006-07, yesterday... (Photo PA: Passengers wait for a train. People liked seeing transport staff at stations but were not always sure what they did, the report say)Labels: crime on buses
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