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Originally Posted by dowlingm
Bohs-Rovers and similar predictable stuff shouldn't require a transport police though - that's event policing and should be made the local garda honcho's problem. Transport police should be concentrating on point issues such as keeping ticket machines free of loiterers, arresting people who won't follow direction from LUAS staff etc. Between wages, equipment and other costs police officers are expensive compared to both customer service and contract security staff.
Toronto has 100 special constables with batons and other non-lethal equipment but the local police service which had agitated against them for years finally got them downgraded and now the system is patrolled by a detachment of 80 regular (armed) police with the SCs being redeployed to other duties. Considering it's a massive 24x7x365 system with almost 2000 buses, 200 streetcars and 600 subway cars, I don't think 80 goes very far. |
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Originally Posted by Colm Moore
For every duty, you need to have up to 5 people employed (4x43 hour working weeks per week and one on leave / training). However, you can obviously tailor that to the daily / weekly fluctuations in demand.
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which is why it is more relaistic to have members of the traffic corps do it