Reduced crime and safer bus crews?
3rd March 1984, Page 40
3rd March 1984
Page 40
Page 40, 3rd March 1984
— Reduced crime and safer bus crews?
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IT IS TO be hoped that bus crews have benefited by last years' five per cent reduction in recorded robbery and other violent theft in London. They should find greater security also in the plan for policemen to jump on and off buses as part of normal beat patrol duties. A limited experiment of this kind has already shown some success.
With 950 officers transferred from central departments to street duty, and with the recruitment of 200 additional police authorised by the Home Secretary, London should become less attractive to the thugs who prey on the defenceless, including bus crews.