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Central police team to tackle safety
The newly-created Roads and Transport Policing Command will concentrate on improving safety on the Capital's roads and surface transport network.
With more than 2,300 police and police community support officers, the unit is the largest of its kind in the UK. It will work 24 hours a day to tackle crime on roads, London's bus network and other transport services.
The part-TfL-funded team will be able to provide hundreds of thousands more hours a year of road safety activity than before, with all officers having the responsibility for reducing crime, congestion and collisions. It will make roads safer for both cyclists and pedestrians, further improve the safety of the taxi and private hire trades, and clamp down on illegal touting.
Mayor of London Boris Johnson said: 'Improving roads and public transport safety is one of my top priorities. This new command means that for the first time ever we now have a single team focusing on doing just that. As we've seen from targeted initiatives such as Operation Safeway, this is a group of officers that can mobilise in large numbers to deliver impressive results and changes in behaviour.
'Metropolitan Police officers on the transport beat have a hugely challenging job and I applaud them for the sterling work they do. With this new command they're low in a position to help ensure that more people can get from A to B safely and securely.'
Our figures show that numbers of people killed or seriously injured on London's roads are at their lowest on record. This means that the Capital is on track to achieve the Mayor's road safety target to reduce this number by 40% by 2020. Crime on London's buses has also fallen by 60% in the past five years, reaching an all time low.
The command structure brings together officers and resources previously working in the Metropolitan Police Service Traffic Operational Command Unit and the Safer Transport Command, and takes on some activities previously carried out by Borough Operational Command Units.
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