On 12 Oct, 07:19, Roland Perry wrote:
In message , at 07:13:21 on Mon, 12 Oct
2009, Miles Bader remarked:

Most off-duty police officers will intervene if something "kicks off"
in their vicinity.

... which is far less likely to occur in first class, would you not
agree? How very convenient for them.

Still, something probably happens occasionally. *What they could do is
have a small number of "first class upgrades" available to police
officers and have a lottery to make them available to those officers who
wish to use the service.

Given that these are police commuting to their jobs mainly in Central
London from the suburbs, are there really that many services with FC?
--
Roland Perry

Actually, there's a lot more than there used to be, probably creating
a lot of confusion.

Introduction of 377s and 450s, which probably numerically replace 423s
that were only used in the peaks, has resulted in all sorts of
suburban services being operated by 100 mph, air-conditioned units
with first class, on routes where there are no first class fares.

Punters now have to remember whether the first class is declassified
or else leave bits of the train unnecessarily empty or keep straying
into the first class where it's still classified.

(It's funny how people are squeamish about going into the first class
area even in charter trains where they've hired the whole thing.)