Bus crime
Request ID: FOI-0623-1819
Date published: 26 June 2018
You asked
Dear Transport for London
The following information is requested under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.
1) How many bus crimes have been committed in London in 2018?
2) How many bus crimes have been committed in each London borough in 2018?
Yours faithfully,
We answered
Our ref: FOI-0623-1819/GH
Thank you for your request received by Transport for London (TfL) on 10 June 2018 asking for information about crime on buses.
Your request has been considered under the requirements of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 and our information access policy. I can confirm that we do hold the information you require.
We publish a quarterly, and annual, bulletin which provides the information you have requested – see https://tfl.gov.uk/corporate/publications-and-reports/crime-and-incident-bulletins However, as requested, please also see below for the total number of bus related crimes recorded by the Metropolitan Police in 2018 (1 Jan to 30 April), broken down by borough.
|
Borough
|
Bus-related Crime Volume
|
|
Barking & Dagenham
|
95
|
|
Barnet
|
163
|
|
Bexley
|
65
|
|
Brent
|
183
|
|
Bromley
|
109
|
|
Camden
|
236
|
|
Croydon
|
161
|
|
Ealing
|
177
|
|
Enfield
|
155
|
|
Greenwich
|
168
|
|
Hackney
|
238
|
|
Hammersmith & Fulham
|
150
|
|
Haringey
|
258
|
|
Harrow
|
65
|
|
Havering
|
92
|
|
Hillingdon
|
129
|
|
Hounslow
|
110
|
|
Islington
|
193
|
|
Kensington & Chelsea
|
69
|
|
Kingston upon Thames
|
74
|
|
Lambeth
|
306
|
|
Lewisham
|
190
|
|
Merton
|
74
|
|
Newham
|
284
|
|
Redbridge
|
82
|
|
Richmond upon Thames
|
56
|
|
Southwark
|
254
|
|
Sutton
|
43
|
|
Tower Hamlets
|
142
|
|
Waltham Forest
|
135
|
|
Wandsworth
|
113
|
|
Westminster
|
289
|
|
Total
|
4858
|
The figures reported for the bus network are based on official MPS figures for bus related crime unless otherwise stated. There is no distinct category of ’bus crime’ in the MPS crime recording system. Recorded crime data is extracted from the MPS system using a complex query that searches all MPS crime for transport venue codes and those that have the word bus, bus stop, bus station and transport related words somewhere in the electronic case file. For this reason, some crimes that did not occur on the bus network will be included in the figures.
If this is not the information you are looking for, please do not hesitate to contact me.
If you are not satisfied with this response please see the attached information sheet for details of your right to appeal.
Yours sincerely
Graham Hurt
FOI Case Officer
FOI Case Management Team
General Counsel
Transport for London
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