Arrests (Hansard, 10 January 1989)

§ Mr. Harry Barnes
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what are the latest available annual figures for(a) total arrests, (b) total passenger journeys and (c) arrests as a percentage of passenger journeys on the London Underground.

§ Mr. Portillo
The number of arrests for crimes on the London Underground in 1988 was 2,618. The number of recorded crimes during that period was 16,436 and the number of passenger journeys is estimated to have been 814 million. This gives a ratio of one crime for every 49,500 passenger journeys.

§ Mr. Harry Barnes
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what are the latest available annual figures for(a) total arrests, (b) total passenger journeys and (c) arrests as a percentage of passenger journeys on British Rail.

§ Mr. Portillo
The British Transport Police report that there were 6,354 arrests in the 1987 calendar year in relation to offences on British Rail. The total number of passenger journeys on BR in 1987–88 was 727.2 million. There was one arrest every 114,448 passenger journeys. As a percentage, this is 0.000874 per cent.