Transport for LondonPolicing and enforcement
Skip to navigationThe Transport Policing and Enforcement Directorate (TPED) was established in early 2003 with the remit of delivering policing and enforcement services to London's transport system.
The directorate incorporates six distinct areas of operation. It delivers transport policing services to TfL's Surface Transport modes via the joint TfL/Metropolitan Police Service Transport Operational Command Unit and to TfL's rail and Underground businesses via additional policing resources for the British Transport Police (BTP). It is also responsible for delivering bus lane enforcement on the Transport for London Road Network (TLRN).
TPED also works with boroughs to increase parking and bus lane enforcement on key bus corridors on borough roads, tackles fare evasion on London's buses through visible and covert revenue protection activities and investigates and prosecutes fare evaders and other offenders for Surface Transport.
Since the formation of TfL, over 900 additional uniformed officers have been deployed onto London's transport network.
This will be bolstered by a further 100 BTP officers in 2004/05. These additional officers are supported by a new intelligence system developed by TPED. This system allows TfL and the police to see a picture of crime and disorder on the transport network for the first time and allows the officers to focus their efforts where it is most needed.
TPED has worked closely with London Underground and BTP to develop a Reassurance Policing strategy for the Underground and other parts of TfL's rail network. This led to the deployment of over 100 uniformed officers in 2003/04 who are responsible for local policing of sections of the rail network.
They are both highly visible to the public and focused on solving local crime and disorder problems. In 2004/05, this approach will be expanded to London's transport interchanges and the overground rail network.
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