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London’s first Safer Transport Teams
The Mayor of London, Ken Livingstone and the Metropolitan Police Service Commissioner, Sir Ian Blair visited Bexleyheath on the 20th March to launch one of London’s first Safer Transport Teams.
On the 3rd October 2006 the Mayor announced funding for an additional 378 Police Community Support Officers for London’s transport network would be deployed across London. Known as Safer Transport Teams, up to 18 new Police Community Support Officers (PCSOs) will work with at least two sergeants and one police constable to provide visibility and reassurance and cut crime, disorder and anti-social behaviour on and around public transport.
The Bexleyheath Safer Transport Team were accompanied by the Mayor, MPS Commissioner, British Transport Police Chief Constable , Ian Johnston and David Brown, Transport for London’s Managing Director of Surface Transport as they patrolled in Bexleyheath’s Market Square.
Ken Livingstone said:
“The big investment we are now seeing to make our public spaces including our public transport safe is vital. We are launching the new outer London police community support officers here in Bexley, one of the first parts of London to benefit from the “Safer Transport Teams”. Crime is falling in Bexley and right across London, thanks to the hard work of police and local communities, but there is no possibility that we will let up in the fight to make public spaces as safe as possible, which is why we are introducing these new Safer Transport Teams.
“Over the coming months, 378 Police Community Support Officers will be introduced onto the transport system in twenty one outer London boroughs. They will form a highly visible policing presence on our transport network, provide reassurance and make public transport safer”.
Sir Ian Blair. Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police said: “I am delighted that we have been able to work closely with TfL to respond to the concerns o f local communities in this way. The introduction of transport Community Support Officers is a further example the MPS’s commitment to making London safer. The introduction of Safer Neighbourhoods Teams across London has already made a significant contribution to the reduction in crime and an increase in public confidence in the police. I’m confident the new Safer Transport Teams will have the same positive impact on communities living close to and using major transport hubs.”
David Brown, TfL’s Managing Director of Surface Transport said: “These PCSOs have spent a few weeks getting to know the area and the various transport issues locally and the priorities for this Bexley team will include combating vandalism to the buses which has already been improved locally by the fantastic work of the MPS Transport Operational Command Unit’s BusTag team. The vast majority of our passengers enjoy safe and reliable journeys on the buses and we will not tolerate disruption and intimidation by the tiny proportion intent on causing trouble.”
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