Haringey Lib Dems want more police for local commuter lines

1.08.07pm GMT Fri 10th Mar 2006

The Liberal Democrat Spokesperson on Policing and Community Safety in Haringey has written to the British Transport Police with a request that they increase police patrols on commuter routes in the Borough to tackle crime and anti-social behaviour against users of the rail network. The Lib Dems want more funding to pay for the extra Police and Police Community Support Officers.

Cllr Ron Aitken has written to the Inspector of the BTP covering Haringey to ask for a breakdown of crime rates on the Silverlink, WAGN, Piccadilly and Victoria Line Underground and rail services in the Borough, as well as costings for the provision of extra Police and Community Support Officer patrols.

"In the British Transport and Met Forces we have two tremendous assets doing a good job" said Cllr Aitken. "However, we need to find additional resources to pay for more police and PCSOs for the transport network as other boroughs are doing. Ken Livingstone rejected the Lib Dem proposal to spend £20 million on 272 new police officers on the system, so we are exploring our own plans as Lib Dems in other authorities have done."