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British Transport Police Chief Constable Lucy D'Orsi highlighted the relaunch of 61016, a free text-to-report number people can use to contact the force for help in the event of harassment on the ...
Private British railway companies employed detectives and police almost from the outset of passenger services in 1826. These companies were unified into four in 1923 then into a single nationalised company in 1947 by the Transport Act, which also created the British Transport Commission (BTC).
The British Transport Police Authority is the police authority that oversees the British Transport Police.A police authority is a governmental body in the United Kingdom that defines strategic plans for a police force and provides accountability [1] so that the police function "efficiently and effectively", [2] and the British Transport Police patrol the railways in England, Wales, and Scotland.
Operation Shield is an initiative led by British Transport Police, where security scanners are to be deployed at major railway stations with the aim of discouraging criminal activity on the rail network.
Project Guardian is a joint initiative between British Transport Police (BTP), the Metropolitan Police Service ("the Met"), the City of London Police, and Transport for London (TfL), which aims to combat and increase reporting of sexual harassment on public transport in London.
The Metropolitan Special Constabulary (MSC) is the volunteer police force of the Metropolitan Police Service. [4] It is one of three Special Constabularies operating within London, the others being part of the City of London Police and British Transport Police. The service was created over 190 years ago under the Special Constables Act 1831.
Travel safe officers are fully vetted to level 2 standards and accredited by the British Transport Police. Officers can and will use the powers given to them which include taking details of offenders and enforcement (fixed penalty notice) which could also be removal of persons from a train or railway premises using reasonable force as a last ...
Before 2003, the British Transport Police was unable to have PCSOs until Section 28 of the Railways and Transport Safety Act 2003 allowed the BTP Chief Constable to recruit PCSOs and designate powers to them using the Police Reform Act 2002—which previously only extended to chief constables or commissioners of territorial police forces.