Supplementary memorandum submitted by
the Go-Ahead Group
The Go-Ahead Group welcomes the opportunity
of presenting further evidence and clarification to the Committee
in relation to passenger safety at stations.
With effect from 1 April 2006, Go-Ahead operates
two of the largest franchises in London and the South-East with
responsibility for over 330 stations. The Southern and Southeastern
franchises carry in excess of 110 million passengers a year, 15%
of the National rail business.
1. Question 12: Exactly how many stations
do you manage, and how many of these are accredited under the
Secure Stations Scheme?
Answer: We manage 163 Stations in our
Southern Franchise of which seven are currently accredited. A
further 15 are planned to achieve accredited status by the end
of June 2006. A follow on tranche of 28 stations are being considered
for 2006-07. By July 2007 we would expect to have 50 (30%) of
Southern stations accredited.
In our newly acquired Southeastern franchise
there are 182 stations, of which nine on the Hayes Line are accredited.
Southeastern has plans to extend accreditation to other stations
on a rolling programme, 10 accreditations in the first year of
the franchise, and more in successive years.
Our former Thameslink Franchise included 28
stations, of which 22 (79% of total), achieved Secure Station
Accreditation.
2. Questions 41-44: What would be the extra
cost of staffing all your stations at all times when trains are
running?
Answer: Notional staff costs alone, excluding
building and other costs, would be circa £7.5 million for
Southern and circa £10.3 million for Southeastern.
3. Question 55: How many times in each of
the last five years have you asked the BTP to prosecute on the
basis of CCTV evidence?
Answer: We are not in a position to ask
BTP to prosecute. Rather, we prepare CCTV evidence packages for
BTP (and other police forces) and respond to their requests for
CCTV evidence, or pro-actively advise them of its availability
for use in their investigations.
Further, CCTV forms only part of a prosecution
case, and we are unable to provide quantifiable data on the usefulness
of the CCTV evidence alone in terms of identification, or indeed
the prosecution of offenders.
In our Southern franchise, from 30 November
2005 up to the present date we have supplied CCTV evidence in
638 cases from our Hove CCTV Centre and from the 24 July 2005
to 29 April 1,037 downloads from our Streatham Hill CCTV Centre.
This equates to an average of 2,913 cases per annum.
In our Southeastern franchise, A central CCTV
monitoring system has only been in operation since March 2005
when new digital CCTV, funded by TfL, commenced roll out to 52
stations within South-London/North-Kent Metro.
From March 2005 to end of April 2006, we have
prepared 512 CCTV evidence packages for police, (starting with
just two in March 2005 rising steadily to 131, 138 and 108 in
February, March and April 2006 respectively.)
It is worth noting that following the terrorist
attacks in London on 7 and 21 July 2005 that CCTV from our Group
systems proved vital in identifying suspected terrorists. In particular
CCTV from Luton (Thameslink) and Kings Cross (NR) provided vital
evidence.
In Southern all CCTV for the relevant period
of interest was preserved. In additional 581 VHS tapes, 170 CD/DVDs
and 28 Digital hard drives were handed to the police.
In Southeastern at all 71 stations within the
M25 CCTV was secured. Police requests were subsequently made for
download from six trains and nine stations for a 48-hour period.
4. Question 64: How many of your staff monitoring
CCTV cameras are in radio contact with BTP officers? What proportion
of monitoring staff does this figure represent?
Answer: There is no direct radio link
between any of our monitoring centres and the police. However
all the monitoring centres are able to contact the BTP Control
Room (MICC) by telephone and the MICC has a direct radio link
with operational officers.
5. Question 87: How many prosecutions have
been brought for violence against your staff, in each of the past
five years? And what is the breakdown into different categories
of violent crime?
Answer: See Attachment—Data provided
courtesy of British Transport Police
6. Question 89: What targets do you have
for reducing the number of cases of violent crime against your
staff?
Answer: Each Franchise operates as a
distinct business and sets its own performance targets. In Southern
the target is set at not more than 104 Staff Injury Assaults in
2006 (actual in 2005 115) seeking a reduction of 10%.
In Southeastern the target is set at not more
than 47 staff assaults in 2006-07 (year end figure for 2005-06
was 53 hence also seeking an overall reduction of 10%).
8 May 2006
SOUTHERN: NUMBER OF ASSAULTS
| | 2005-06
| 2004-05 | 2003-04
| 2002-03 | 2001-02
|
| B00 | Wounding/GBH with intent
| 1 | 0 | 0 |
2 | 3 |
| B01 | Wounding/GBH without intent
| 1 | 1 | 1 |
0 | 0 |
| B02 | ABH | 45
| 39 | 26 | 24 |
32 |
| B06 | Threats to kill | 3
| 1 | 5 | 1 |
2 |
| B22 | Injury by dangerous dog
| 0 | 0 | 1 |
1 | 0 |
| S07 | Harassment | 1
| 3 | 2 | 0 |
2 |
| X02 | Racially aggravated ABH
| 10 | 1 | 1 |
0 | 0 |
| X03 | Racially aggravated common assault
| 6 | 12 | 72 |
2 | |
| X07 | Racially aggravated harassment, alarm or distress
| 18 | 39 | 8 |
9 | 4 |
| X08 | Racially aggravated fear or provocation of violence
| 22 | 13 | 6 |
3 | 2 |
| X10 | Racially aggravated harassment
| 1 | 1 | 0 |
0 | 0 |
| Z70 | Common assault | 141
| 144 | 80 | 114
| 84 |
| TOTAL | | 249
| 254 | 137 | 156
| 131 |
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NUMBER OF PROSECUTIONS
| | 2005-06
| 2004-05 | 2003-04
| 2002-03 | 2001-02
|
| B00 | Wounding/GBH with intent
| 0 | 0 | 0 |
1 | 1 |
| B01 | Wounding/GBH without intent
| 1 | 1 | 1 |
0 | 0 |
| B02 | ABH | 13
| 16 | 11 | 59 |
|
| B06 | Threats to kill | 1
| 1 | 3 | 0 |
0 |
| B22 | Injury by dangerous dog
| 0 | 0 | 0 |
0 | 0 |
| S07 | Harassment | 0
| 0 | 1 | 0 |
1 |
| X02 | Racially aggravated ABH
| 6 | 0 | 1 |
0 | 0 |
| X03 | Racially aggravated common assault
| 0 | 8 | 3 |
0 | 0 |
| X07 | Racially aggravated harassment, alarm or distress
| 3 | 11 | 4 |
2 | 2 |
| X08 | Racially aggravated fear or provocation of violence
| 8 | 7 | 3 |
2 | 1 |
| X10 | Racially aggravated harassment
| 1 | 1 | 0 |
0 | 0 |
| Z70 | Common assault | 21
| 33 | 17 | 24 |
15 |
| TOTAL | | 54 |
78 | 44 | 34 | 29
|
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SOUTHEASTERN: NUMBER OF ASSAULTS
| | 2005-06
| 2004-05 | 2003-04
| 2002-03 | 2001-02
|
| B00 | Wounding/GBH with intent
| 1 | 1 | 0 |
1 | 0 |
| B01 | Wounding/GBH without intent
| 0 | 1 | 1 |
0 | 0 |
| B02 | ABH | 38
| 42 | 18 | 67 |
12 |
| B06 | Threats to kill | 4
| 2 | 0 | 3 |
2 |
| B22 | Injury by dangerous dog
| 0 | 0 | 0 |
0 | 0 |
| S07 | Harassment | 1
| 2 | 2 | 1 |
0 |
| X02 | Racially aggravated ABH
| 0 | 2 | 2 |
0 | 0 |
| X03 | Racially aggravated common assault
| 3 | 7 | 0 |
1 | 1 |
| X07 | Racially aggravated harassment, alarm or distress
| 11 | 2 | 1 |
1 | 3 |
| X08 | Racially aggravated fear or provocation of violence
| 8 | 0 | 1 |
1 | 3 |
| X10 | Racially aggravated harassment
| 0 | 0 | 1 |
0 | 0 |
| Z70 | Common assault | 124
| 106 | 118 | 97
| 59 |
| TOTAL | | 190
| 165 | 144 | 172
| 80 |
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NUMBER OF PROSECUTIONS
| | 2005-06
| 2004-05 | 2003-04
| 2002-03 | 2001-02
|
| B00 | Wounding/GBH with intent
| 1 | 1 | 0 |
1 | 0 |
| B01 | Wounding/GBH without intent
| 0 | 0 | 0 |
0 | 0 |
| B02 | ABH | 13
| 13 | 11 | 10 |
2 |
| B06 | Threats to kill | 0
| 0 | 0 | 1 |
0 |
| B22 | Injury by dangerous dog
| 0 | 0 | 0 |
0 | 0 |
| S07 | Harassment | 0
| 0 | 0 | 0 |
0 |
| X02 | Racially aggravated ABH
| 0 | 1 | 0 |
0 | 0 |
| X03 | Racially aggravated common assault
| 2 | 2 | 0 |
0 | 0 |
| X07 | Racially aggravated harassment, alarm or distress
| 2 | 0 | 1 |
0 | 0 |
| X08 | Racially aggravated fear or provocation of violence
| 0 | 0 | 1 |
1 | 1 |
| X10 | Racially aggravated harassment
| 0 | 0 | 1 |
0 | 0 |
| Z70 | Common assault | 19
| 21 | 22 | 20 |
8 |
| TOTAL | | 37 |
38 | 36 | 33 | 11
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