Public Transport: Crimes of Violence

(asked on 11th October 2018) - View Source

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate he has made of the number of assaults on (a) staff and (b) customers on public transport in 2017-18.


This question was answered on 16th October 2018

Crimes on the railway are recorded by British Transport Police (BTP). The Department does not hold information on other forms of public transport.

On the railways, offences recorded by BTP in the category of violence against the person in 2017/18 amounted to:

Staff 2,699

Customers 7,248

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