Clause 49 - Railways policing plan
Railways and Transport Safety Bill
8:55 am
Mrs Anne McIntosh (Vale of York, Conservative)
The next question is obviously how the pursuit of vandalism as a crime by the national police force is set up under Home Office regulations. As I understand it, vandalism would be considered to be a crime to be pursued and investigated by the police, so the amendment is unnecessary. When we come to clause stand part we can debate the worrying increase in crime in and around railway stations, which the British Transport police should rightly investigate.
What is the implication of the location of the offences? We had an interesting debate earlier about the phrase ''in the vicinity of''.