1. Sectarian Related Offences

Actions

• We are continuing to work with Strathclyde Police and Rangers and Celtic Football Clubs to identify offenders for Sectarian offences.

• We continue to conduct high profile uniform patrols throughout the rail and subway networks during high profile fixtures and our team are routinely complimented by additional officers from across BTP.

• We are proactive in obtaining Football Banning Orders in relation to any sectarian related offences. We have established a single point of contact within the Crown Office Procurator Fiscal Service who deals with BTP Football Banning Order requests.

• The detection rate for football related offences on the Glasgow subway is currently 88% from June 2010 to April 2011.

2. Anti-social behaviour

Actions

• We have increased our high profile uniform patrols on the network when you have told us we are needed most.

• We will continue with our zero tolerance approach to instances of anti-social behaviour directed towards staff and members of the public at stations and on board trains, this has a proven disruptive effect of preventing assaults occurring.

Actions

• We routinely barrier Virgin, East Coast, Transpennine, Cross Country and Scot Rail services prior to departure and upon their arrival giving reassurance to passengers and staff.

• We are liasing with retailers at Glasgow city centre stations giving advice about crime prevention, stock lay-out, use of CCTV and reporting procedures, to prevent and deter any other associated anti-social behaviour.

• We are also giving retail staff updates on current and specific intelligence about shopping trends and have implemented a Service Response Agreement with retailers in the fight against shoplifting. We will report back to retailers in July 2011 with what our joint efforts have achieved. 

Actions

• We work in close partnership with First Scot Rail fraud and security officers and have organised more targeted ticket exercises over the coming months.
• Intelligence indicated that there has been an increase in travel fraud offences over recent months and in response we are taking a zero tolerance approach to offenders, this has a proven disruptive effect of preventing assaults towards members of staff occurring.