Crime on the capital’s bus network has fallen by 11% according to new figures released by Transport for London and the Metropolitan Police Service.
The figures, which cover the first six months of 2007/08, show a significant fall in criminal damage, robbery and theft offences on the capital’s buses and suggest that the number of incidents believed to involve people aged 16 or under was 19 per cent lower compared with the same period in 2006/7.
Mayor Livingstone said the reductions were due to the greater policing of the network following introduction of the Safer Transport Teams promising that TfL “will be continuing to fund them for a further year, making the transport network even safer.”
Jeroen Weimar, Director of Transport Policing and Enforcement at Transport for London said “the results are showing a clear and sustained downward trend in crime.”
