Topic: British Transport Police

Police combat metal theft threat

Metal theft has become one of the top priorities of British Transport Police (BTP), second only to the threat of terrorism.. . A spate of thefts...

Police sued for £12m...by their own officers

POLICE have sued their own forces for an astonishing £12million in "bonkers" compensation payouts.. Many of the settlements were for slips, trips...
Officers are investigating an “incident” involving Chelsea fans on board the 4pm Norwich to London Liverpool Street service which happened just...

CCTV: man thrown against moving train

4:41PM GMT . . Daniel Worgan of Oakengates pleaded guilty to endangering the safety of persons on the railway after being caught throwing a...

Man thrown against moving train

A man who threw another man against a moving train at a railway station has been given a suspended jail sentence.. . Daniel Peter Worgan, 24, of...
A driver aged 86 and her 20-year-old companion had a lucky escape today after she went the wrong way at a level crossing and drove along the line...

Grab a sandwich, lose a $1.9 million Stradivarius

LONDON (Reuters) - A musician who went into a central London sandwich store to buy something to eat has had a 300-year-old Stradivarius violin worth 1.2 million pounds ($1.9 million) stolen, police said on Monday.British Transport Police have launched a ...
Three people committed suicide on the transport network causing major delays to Tube and rail services.. Suicides at Southfields on the District line just before 7pm and at Norwood Junction mainline station at about 7.30pm led to more than 100 cancelled ...
A Metropolitan Police constable has been sacked after having sex with a drunk woman in a police locker room at St Pancras railway station.. Police launched an investigation after the woman, who is in her twenties, claimed she had been raped.. She ...

The healing powers of music

The slow movements of Mozart?s sonatas can be incredibly soothing in helping you relax. Try Vivaldi to help improve your mood if you?re feeling cross or short-tempered. In 2004, the British Transport Police played classical music in Underground stations in ...