Crime levels rise on Tube network despite record low stats

Crime on London’s public transport system has fallen to its lowest ever level despite an increase in criminal activity on parts of the rail network, according to new figures released today.

Annual figures published by the Metropolitan Police Service and British Transport Police (BTP) have shown a 2.3 per cent fall in crime across Transport for London’s (TfL) operations. But despite 802 fewer recorded offences in the past year, crime on the London Underground and Docklands Light Railway (DLR) actually rose by 5.7 per cent.

Officers have attributed a similar 18.3 per cent rise on the London Overground Network to a rise in passenger numbers caused by the opening of the Surrey Quays to Clapham Junction extension.

Despite the increase the rate of crime on London’s urban rail network remains at a record low.

Siwan Hayward, acting director of Community, Safety and Enforcement and Policing (CSEP) at TfL, said: “Our transport network continues to be a safe, low crime environment. Despite this we are not complacent and are putting in measures to effectively deal with the rise in theft on some modes of the network.”




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