Established 2015 as a 3 year pilot - reviewed and repositioned in 2018

Led jointly by TfGM and Greater Manchester Police (GMP) with support from:

• Metrolink Operator (KeolisAmey);

• Stagecoach;

• First Manchester;

• Go North West;

• GMCA and;

• British Transport Police (informal).

TravelSafe Partnership

Governance (proposed)

Wider Leadership Team

(WLT)

(Reporting)

GM Transport

Committee

(Reporting)

GMCA Police & Crime

Panel

(Accountability)

TravelSafe Strategic Group (TSSG)

Sets the overall direction

TravelSafe Tactical Group

Develops & delivers the solutions

(Tasking, resources and tasking through analytics)

TravelSafe Communications

Sub-Group

TravelSafe Strategic Aims

Partnership brought together to help

support a safe and secure Transport

Network:

1. Improve the perception of safety

and security across public transport,

offering reassurance to passengers;

2. Manage instances of Crime and Anti-

Social Behaviour (ASB) occurring on

the transport network; and

3. Discourage fare evasion.

Influences

TravelSafe

Partnership

Standing

Together

Plan

Changing

Landscape

Devolution

& Growth

Expanding

Networks

Passenger

Perception

of Safety

Revenue

Protection

Current UK

Threat

level

The TravelSafe Partnership currently covers the bus and Metrolink network in

Greater Manchester and is exploring an increasingly closer relationship with

rail through BTP.

Influences

1. Priority One ‘Keeping People Safe’: protecting and caring for

people who live, work, socialise and travel in Greater

Manchester.

2. Priority Two ‘Reducing Harm and Offending’: preventing anti-

social and criminal behaviour.

3. Priority Three ‘Strengthening communities and places’:

helping to build resilient communities, and protecting the

places where people live, work, socialise or travel.

Budget & Funding Model

• TravelSafe is a strategic partnership without independent

financial standing.

• Mix of funding by partners of financial contributions and

in-kind support with special constable roles through the

national Employer Supported Policing Scheme.

• TravelSafe Partnership funding model is currently under review,

current operator contributions are:

• £250,000 – TfGM (Metrolink)

• £60,000 – First

• 6 members of staff on Employer Supported Policing

Scheme providing 49% of their working time (4

Stagecoach, 1 KAM, 1 TfGM)

Annual Spend

Main spend for the TravelSafe Partnership is:

• Staffing (TravelSafe Partnership Manager/TravelSafe

Partnership Officer)

• GMP Overtime (for events, special operations, protests etc.)

• Surveys/Data Analysis

• Engagement activity – communications and marketing

materials

• Legal costs associated with pursuing civil injunctions

• Maintenance of the TSI website

• Funding for GMP Analyst

TravelSafe Partnership Approach

The Partnership takes a problem solving approach, using

consolidated data to determine focus areas/themes based on

information or intelligence.

Methods include:

• Preventative activities – eg schools and community

engagement, marketing campaigns

• Target Hardening – eg safety in design, Park Mark

accreditation, safer trams stops

• Partnership staff deployments – eg days of action,

enforcement operations

Modal Breakdown 2017 - present

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143

230 216 203 204150 148 170 141 125

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176 154 174

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201

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139

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Incidents of crime and antisocial behaviour by month 2017 - 2019

Cycle Hubs

TfGM shelters

JC Decaux shelters

Rail

Metrolink

Bus Stop

Bus Station

Bus Service

Consolidated

data from

January 2018

Increase potentially

linked to introduction

of online reporting of

crime by GMP

Bus Breakdown

0 20 40 60 80 100 120

Trespass

Theft

Sexual Offences

Safe Guarding

Public Order

Other Incident

Firearms

Damage to property

Bye Law/Minor Incident

Anti-Social Behaviour

Against the person

Mar-19 Apr-19 May-19 Jun-19

Data includes bus stops, bus stations and bus services

Bus Summary

Key points from the bus summary for June shows:

• A rise in the number of incidents categorised as ‘against the

person’ - assaults increasing from 35 in April to 50 in June.

• Almost half the recorded incidents (24 of 50) were within the

Manchester local authority area.

• The increase in the number of Bye Law/Minor Incidents largely

attributable to incidents at Middleton Interchange in June

involving 3 people with active Exclusion Notices.

Metrolink Breakdown

0 20 40 60 80 100 120 140

Trespass

Theft

Sexual Offences

Safe Guarding

Public Order

Other Incident

Firearms

Damage to property

Bye Law/Minor Incident

Anti-Social Behaviour

Against the person

Mar-19 Apr-19 May-19 Jun-19

Metrolink Summary

Key points from the Metrolink summary for June shows:

• A reduction in Public Order incidents from 85 in May to 70 in

June – mainly for drunk and disorderly and threatening

behaviour and verbal abuse.

• Lower totals than the same period in 2018.

• Reduction in incidents ‘against the person’ from 39 in May to

23 in June.

• This reflects the 2018 trend.

TravelSafe Partnership Initial Challenges

Data

• Access to consolidated partnership data

• Analyst support to review and identify trends

Resourcing

• Recruitment and training of 50 PCSO’s

New ways of working

• Increased partnership working using a ‘problem-solving’ approach

• Data/Intelligence driven rather than purely reactive

Powers

• Increased partnership working - using collective powers for greater effect

• TfGM Civil Injunction powers

TravelSafe Partnership Successes

Schools engagement:

• 2017-2018

• 123 sessions, 4,698 young people attended

• 2018-2019

• 410 sessions, 29,369 young people attended

525% increase in engagement on last year

TravelSafe Partnership Successes

Operation Infinity –Oldham –Rochdale Line - July 2018

• 13 arrests during the 2 week period: Fraud, Assault, Public Order,

Wanted on Warrant and Aggravated Burglary

• 15 crimes recorded for incidents on the network: Assault, Public

order, Drugs offences and Theft/Fraud

• 2,603 revenue enforcement tickets issued by Metrolink

• 105 pieces of intelligence submitted

• 153 young persons engaged with some requiring safeguarding

interventions

TravelSafe Partnership Successes

Partnership Days of Action

• Minimum one per month for

Manchester City Centre

• Additional based on

intelligence

• Linked into wider

national/GM initiatives (e.g.

Rail Safety Week/ Challenger)Community Engagement

• Partnership organised

Oldham/Rochdale football

tournament

• StudentSafe – University

Freshers Fairs

Forward Look

Ongoing Partnership developments include:

• Increasing the Partnership reach

• Improving joint data collection systems

• Providing clarity on unacceptable behaviours

• Increased GMP presence within TfGM Control Centre

• Roll-out of a single GM Transport public reporting system

• Development of an Anti-Social Behaviour policy and procedures

GMP Transport Unit

Safer Transport Team

Specialist Operations Branch

Proposed launch October 2019

Vision & Direction

Transport Unit,

“To provide a pro-active policing presence across the Greater Manchester

Transport Systems to reduce criminality and anti-social behaviour, improve

public confidence and deliver on road safety across the entire Greater

Manchester area.”

Establishment of

• 1 Inspector

• 5 Sergeants

• 57 Police Constables

Shift Pattern providing cover for:

Deployment Monday to Sunday

Core Hours from 0700 – 0200hrs

Additional Coverage Fri – Sat until 0500hrs

Monday – Friday resilience to provide action/demand week

in response to tasking / events

Proposed to be based from the

Safer Transport Team HQ

Eccles Police Station

Proposed Duties

• Foot/Cycle Deployment across the GM

Transport System / Hubs on intelligence-

led patrol

• Mobile Response to Crime-in-Action

occurring on the GM Transport System /

Hubs

• Supporting the restoration of the

Metrolink System following collision /

significant disruption

• Engagement on Road Safety Operations,

throughout the GM area, supporting the

wider work for Safer Roads GM / Cycling –

Walking

• Supporting the City Centre Night Time

Operation to reduce crime and ASB at

Transport Hubs and improving public

safety