Moving target: securing the UK

By Mike Goldsmith Mike Goldsmith 2005-01-04T00:00:00

In recent years, many station managers have invested heavily in CCTV systems as part of a concerted bid to discourage criminal activity, and help in identifying offenders.

The UK’s rail regulator Tom Winsor has already suggested that it would be “completely impractical and unaffordable” to introduce airport-style security to the rail network, but that doesn’t sit comfortably with British Transport Police figures for 2004 which suggest a 14% rise in violent crimes on the railways. What can ...

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