Editing British Transport Police (section)

==Crime types==
=== Route crime ===
[[Route crime]] collectively describes crimes and offences of trespass and vandalism which occur on railway lines and can affect the running of train services.<ref>{{cite web |date=18 February 2008 |title=Route crime |url=http://www.rail-reg.gov.uk/server/show/nav.1129/ |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120926024528/http://www.rail-reg.gov.uk/server/show/nav.1129/ |archivedate=26 September 2012 |access-date=8 June 2009 |website=Office of Rail Regulation}}</ref> The majority of deaths are due to suicide or trespass.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.rssb.co.uk/pdf/reports/ASPR_Full_05.pdf |title=Annual Safety Performance Report 2005 |date=16 May 2006 |website=[[Rail Safety Standards Board]] (RSSB) |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927203018/http://www.rssb.co.uk/pdf/reports/ASPR_Full_05.pdf |archivedate=27 September 2007}}</ref>

Graffiti costs rail firms over £5{{nbsp}}million a year in direct costs alone.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.btp.police.uk/issues/graffiti.htm |title=BTP: Issues, graffiti |access-date=19 March 2007 |website=British Transport Police |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070206213816/http://www.btp.police.uk/issues/graffiti.htm |archivedate=6 February 2007}}</ref> The BTP maintains a graffiti database which holds over 1900 graffiti tags, each unique to an individual. In 2005 BTP sent 569 suspects to court (an increase of 16% on 2004 figures).<ref>The Sharp End Issue 16 (published for the Home Office and sent to every police officer, SC and support staff in England and Wales)</ref>

In the North West Area BTP has joined forces with [[Lancashire Constabulary]] and [[Network Rail]] to combat theft of metal items and equipment from railway lines in an initiative called [[Operation Tremor]]. The BTP established Operation Drum in 2006 as a national response to the increase in [[metal theft]] offences and also chairs the relevant [[Association of Chief Police Officers]] working group.<ref>http://www.btp.presscentre.com/content/Detail.asp?ReleaseID=1404&NewsAreaID=2/ {{dead link |date=April 2018 |bot=There'sNoTime |fix-attempted=yes}}</ref>

===Passenger crime===

[[Operation Shield]] is an initiative by BTP to reduce the number of knives carried by passengers on the rail network. This initiative came about after knife crime began to rise and also because of the murder of a passenger on a [[Virgin CrossCountry]] service travelling from [[Glasgow Central railway station|Glasgow]].<ref>{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/5023422.stm |title=Man quizzed over stabbing |date=28 May 2006 |access-date=8 June 2009 |work=BBC News}}</ref>

In 2013, in response a survey conducted by Transport for London, which showed that 15% of women using public transport in London had been the subject of some form of unwanted sexual behaviour but that 90% of incidents went unreported, the BTP—in conjunction with the [[Metropolitan Police Service]], [[City of London Police]], and TfL—launched [[Project Guardian]], which aimed to reduce sexual offences and increase reporting.<ref name="gruniad II">{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/the-womens-blog-with-jane-martinson/2013/oct/01/project-guardian-public-transport-safer-women |title=Project Guardian: making public transport safer for women |last=Bates |first=Laura |date=1 October 2013 |newspaper=[[The Guardian]] |access-date=17 September 2014 |author-link=Laura Bates}}</ref>

In November 2016 BTP introduced the "See It, Say It, Sorted" slogan in posters and on-train tannoy announcements, encouraging passengers to report suspicious activity.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Sleigh |first1=Sophia |title='See It. Say It. Sorted.' Is Staying Despite Promise To Banish Tannoy Spam |url=https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/see-it-say-it-sorted-is-staying-despite-grant-shapps-promise-to-banish-tannoy-spam_uk_62b32eb2e4b0cdccbe659f22 |access-date=8 February 2024 |work=HuffPost UK |date=27 June 2022 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Simpson |first1=Francesca Gillett, Fiona |title=Posters for new police anti-terror campaign likened to Nazi propaganda |url=https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/posters-for-new-police-antiterror-initiative-on-trains-spark-racism-row-a3385836.html |access-date=8 February 2024 |work=Evening Standard |date=8 November 2016 |language=en}}</ref>