Prior to the October 2021 launch of the new Transport for London (TfL) campaign to tackle sexual harassment on the transport network, how many incidents of sexual harassment on the TfL network were reported per year since 2016?

The attached table shows the number of sexual offences on Transport for London’s (TfL) public transport network from 2016 to September 2021. The pandemic significantly reduced passenger numbers from March 2020, which has impacted the number of sexual offences reported.

Please note that these sexual offence figures do not include sexually motivated crimes such as obscene comments or gestures. These crimes are not covered by sexual offence legislation and are commonly reported as public order offences within police violent crime figures. The British Transport Police now extracts and reports on other sexually motivated crimes such as public order offences, and TfL will be reporting on this going forward. TfL is now working with the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS)’s Roads and Transport Policing Command to do the same for the bus network. This will ensure sexually motivated crimes are reported as such.

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