What is the best way to get the British Transport Police (BTP) and public transport operators engaged in tackling criminal damage?
• BTP has seven operational areas throughout the UK and each area engages at a local level with a variety of statutory and non-statutory groups. The location of each operational area is set out on BTP’s website. To contact BTP dial 0800 40 50 40 (freephone) for non emergency incidents. They can then supply you with a local point of contact or they will make arrangements for someone to respond to you. • Transport organisations should be represented on local Crime & Disorder Reduction Partnerships, and it is within these partnerships that public transport crime & anti-social behaviour issues can be addressed and dealt with by intelligence led policing. Most important is that these incidents are reported to the police in order that hotspot locations, times, days and incident types can be identified so that the correct measures and initiatives can be put in place. • The key element in securing partner engagement is information about the problem. By providing key intelligence, the problem s
