Railway Violence (Hansard, 11 November 2003)

§ Mr. McNulty

The British Transport Police (BTP) does not record crime statistics broken down by train operating company. However, the BTP have provided information regarding incidents of violence on trains for the last four years. Table 1 shows the total number of offences reported in England and Wales and Table 2 shows the total number of offences reported in Scotland.

Table 1: England and Wales
	2000–01	2001–02	2002–03	April 2003 to October 2003
Actual Bodily Harm	781	824	766	209
Disorder and Affray	103	144	143	29
Assaults on Police	36	28	28	17
Assaults and Violent Incidents	119	115	118	115

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Table 1: England and Wales
2000–01	2001–02	2002–03	April 2003 to October 2003
Murder and Attempted Murder	9	11	8	4
Breach of the Peace	0	10	5	1
Common Assault	3,994	4,016	2,812	677
Domestic Disputes	1	3	5	12
Firearms and Offensive weapons	9	11	7	21
Grievous Bodily Harm	114	119	101	28
Sexual Assaults including Rape	11	7	10	4
Racial/Homophobic Incidents	3	14	8	10
Robbery/Attempted Robbery	25	19	20	18
Threatening Behaviour and Violent Disorder	30	35	78	82
Verbal Abuse	159	188	211	108
Public Order Offences	0	4	0	5
Manslaughter	0	0	3	0
Total	5,394	5,548	4,323	1,340

Table 2: Scotland
2000–01	2001–02	2002–03	April 2003 to October 2003
Actual Bodily Harm	1	0	1	0
Disorder and Affray	3	0	7	1
Assaults on Police	3	6	5	2
Assaults and Violent Incidents	316	295	315	129
Murder and Attempted Murder	2	0	0	0
Breach of the Peace	0	2	6	1
Common Assault	25	0	33	13
Domestic Disputes	0	0	0	1
Firearms and Offensive weapons	0	3	0	0
Grievous Bodily Harm	0	0	0	0
Sexual Assaults including Rape	0	1	0	0
Racial/Homophobic Incidents	0	0	0	0
Robbery/Attempted Robbery	2	0	0	0
Threatening Behaviour and Violent Disorder	0	0	3	53
Verbal Abuse	3	0	23	4
Public Order Offences	0	0	0	0
Manslaughter	0	0	0	0
Total	355	307	393	204