Hello again Tony....we must stop meeting like this.
Its true to say that when you see the exercises at the gates with Revenue
and Police, the boys in blue have always said that a ticket iregularity is
an excuse to check other things and they pick up very few fare dodgers and
lots of other miscreants.
Stolen credit cards, outstanding warrants....you name it they get them.
Including ofcourse, drugs. Think how sad you would be if you were the drug
courier who landed at Heathrow, passed through customs with a big sigh, went
down got on the tube and were picked up by a sniffer dog at the top of the
escalator with your 5kg of stuff.....profits already spent! Actually
happened. In tears he was.

"Tony Wilson" wrote in message
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"Malcolm & Nika" wrote
We wont go down the "suport from BTP" route. Its legendary. In fact there
are times where a CSA has detained a fare dodger only to find himself on
charges instead.
The CCTV thing is in operation on most stations.....as for local paper,
human rights issues and innocent until proven guilty etc.


Hmmm, another example of where the law is used to protect the guilty? And
I
thought that the Police had been won around to the concept of
zero-tolerance
style policing on transport, whereby there is a good chance fare dodgers
are
also quite likely to be committing other offences?

Oh well, I agree with you that if the support from BTP is that poor on
this
then you can't expect LU staff to risk being charged for restraining
someone.

Tony