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Tendring: Hi-tech team to tackle train yobs
A SECURITY squad wearing head-mounted cameras are to start policing trains coming in and out of Clacton to cut down on trouble.
A dedicated team, made up of National Express employees and a full-time BTP sergeant, will patrol the line from the town's station to Colchester and Walton.
The route includes village stops like Great Bentley and Alresford which are blighted by fare-dodging youngsters.
Groups of youngsters from Clacton have been blamed for causing trouble in the villages - and in coastal towns like Frinton and Walton - because they often get away with travelling for free.
British Transport Police (BTP) has teamed up with National Express East Anglia to come up with a way of dealing with anti-social behaviour on that section of the railway.
It is the first time such an initiative has taken place on the county's railways.
They hope to tackle the high number of recorded incidents of anti-social behaviour.
The team will also crack down on fare-evaders, people smoking on trains, passengers who drop litter and any other incidents they come across.
The security officers will be using the latest gadgets - special miniature cameras mounted on their heads.
It is hoped these cameras will ensure more offenders are brought to court and deter would-be trouble-makers.
The BTP sergeant will be on hand to offer guidance, deal with difficult people and liaise with any arrests.
A code of conduct has been drawn up to tell passengers what they are not allowed to do and advise them on how they should be behaving.
The new team will be unveiled tomorrow.
9:11am Thursday 1st May 2008
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CommentPosted by: Dont call me treacle, besidetheseaside- beside thesea on 9:52pm Mon 5 May 08
"They hope to tackle the high number of recorded incidents of anti-social behaviour".HURRAA went up as the helmet cam mounted police type persons all went on the trains to catch the little bast*rds who make others lives a misery both on the trains and off and around local neighbourhoods.
On another story the gazette is running, it was about another naughty boy in a car, but he had a stun gun.
Our helmet cam heros want to get equal with said other naughty boy, and get stun guns themselves to "tackle" the little uncontroled little bast*rds that are destroying both proprty and residents lives, and when seen doing so, sting the living daylights out of the backsides or whever the twin pronged stingers contact with 50,000 volts to give said little bast*rds something to remind them to behave themselves...for a change....
"They hope to tackle the high number of recorded incidents of anti-social behaviour".HURRAA went up as the helmet cam mounted police type persons all went on the trains to catch the little bast*rds who make others lives a misery both on the trains and off and around local neighbourhoods.
On another story the gazette is running, it was about another naughty boy in a car, but he had a stun gun.
Our helmet cam heros want to get equal with said other naughty boy, and get stun guns themselves to "tackle" the little uncontroled little bast*rds that are destroying both proprty and residents lives, and when seen doing so, sting the living daylights out of the backsides or whever the twin pronged stingers contact with 50,000 volts to give said little bast*rds something to remind them to behave themselves...for a change....
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