{"id":13281,"date":"2016-04-01T11:52:17","date_gmt":"2016-04-01T10:52:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/?p=13281"},"modified":"2016-04-01T11:52:42","modified_gmt":"2016-04-01T10:52:42","slug":"safer-travel-in-birmingham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2016\/04\/01\/safer-travel-in-birmingham\/","title":{"rendered":"Safer Travel in Birmingham"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"td_quote_box td_box_left\">\n<h3><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>\u201cThe public quite rightly expects to be able to travel on buses, trams and trains without fear for their safety.&#8221;<\/em><\/span><\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Crimes on Trains, Buses and trams have reduced across Birmingham after live CCTV footage has been introduced.<\/p>\n<p>Crime Commissioner David Jamieson has praised the work of the Safer Travel team, a link between West Midlands Police, British Transport Police and Centro.<\/p>\n<p>He commended the use of high-profile operations like Vemotion technology, which allowed Safer Travel officers to monitor live cameras on board public transport.<\/p>\n<p>Adding: \u201cThis report highlights the work that is going on to reduce crime on the public transport network.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStrong pro-active action has led to a further five per cent reduction in total recorded crime, with public confidence in their safety increasing too.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mr Jamieson also reiterated his calls for region-wide bans for trouble-makers on trains, trams and buses.<\/p>\n<p>The Commissioner said: \u201cThe public quite rightly expects to be able to travel on buses, trams and trains without fear for their safety.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGiving the West Midlands the ability to apply one criminal behaviour order covering its entire network is a key tool that will make our transport even safer and encourage more people to use the service.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, a man was banned from using public transport for 10 years at peaks times after molesting a minor on the top deck.<\/p>\n<p>30-year-old sex-fiend, Stefano Sabo, will not be able to use the bus between 7am- .30 am and 3pm to 6pm<\/p>\n<p>Mr Sabo pleaded guilty to sexual assault and was given an eight month jail term suspended for two years, as well as the Sexual Harm Prevention Order banning him from buses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe public quite rightly expects to be able to travel on buses, trams and trains without fear for their safety.&#8221; Crimes on Trains, Buses and trams have reduced across Birmingham after live CCTV footage has been introduced. Crime Commissioner David Jamieson has praised the work of the Safer Travel team, a link between West Midlands [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":13278,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,112,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-top-stories","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13281\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}