Police have seen a spike in the number of violent and sex crimes on the London Underground network, the Standard can reveal. The latest figures from British Transport Police showed 1,961 violent and sex crimes were recorded across the Tube and DLR network in the first six months of this year.
The figure represents a 41 per cent increase compared with the same period in 2015, when 1,389 were recorded, according to the statistics obtained under the Freedom of Information Act.
Police stressed officers were working hard to tackle all forms of violent and sex crime on the Tube and DLR network.
A BTP spokesman said a rise in the number of sexual offences had been expected following the launch of ‘report it to stop it’ in April last year – a new campaign to tackle unwanted sexual behaviour on public transport.
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And what are the police going to do about it? Nothing. Instead it’s going to crack down on online racism:
Scotland Yard ploughs £2million into new ‘thought police’ unit to snoop on web users and hunt down trolls
Scotland Yard will spend £1.7million on a ‘Twitter squad’ to hunt trolls Volunteers will help by looking for ‘inappropriate’ social media behaviour It comes after a surge in reports of racist and sexist abuse online But civil liberties campaigners fear it will ‘stop people having opinions’ Britain’s biggest police force has set up a controversial unit – dubbed as ‘thought police’ by critics last night – to investigate offensive comments from the internet.
It will be supported by an army of volunteers trained to seek out anything they deem inappropriate on social networks such as Facebook and Twitter.
They will then report it to officers who will attempt to track down the culprits and possibly prosecute them, according to a report seen by The Mail on Sunday.
Scotland Yard is spending £1.7 million to set up its Twitter squad, which will have five detectives running it.
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