FROM THE NOETIC REPORT The disadvantages of the NSW Police Model include: + RailCorp will forfeit rail security and safety to a third party and will retain little or no say in the level of service dedicated to security, law enforcement, and asset and revenue protection. + The NSW Government may be unable to ensure that NSW Police provide the level of service required by RailCorp or other public transport agencies. + Should NSW Police not prioritise revenue protection it is likely that RailCorp would need to reconstitute the Revenue Protection Officer role to ensure that fare evasion was minimised. + RailCorp‟s funding for security operations will be transferred to the NSW Police. There will be no guarantee that this funding will be quarantined and used solely for public transport security. + Disbanding the Transit Officer Function would require a large number of redundancies within RailCorp‟s Security Division, requiring considerable expenditure of budget to facilitate redundancy payouts. + Reliance on MOUs and Service Level Agreements (SLAs) will be insufficient to guarantee the uniformity, adequacy and dependability of the commitment of the police to the travelling public. RISKS Transferring control to the NSW Police on the basis that only they can fully provide the required levels of security on public transport may increase the pressure on the NSW Government to guarantee that public transport security will be improved. Should the NSW Police be unable to demonstrably improve security for public transport staff and travellers the NSW Government will be required to explain that failure. RailCorp may be unable to persuade the NSW Police to increase the size of the CCU from its current strength of approximately 300 officers to a size that includes the current number of Transit Officers plus those involved on other modes of public transport. Should that increase not occur the NSW public transport network may not be as well covered as it could have been had Transit Officers been amalgamated as per the Hybrid Model. The NSW Police may not prioritise public transport security over offences that they consider to be more important. These may include revenue protection and minor anti-social offences. This may increase fare evasion and the occurrence of minor offences and RailCorp may find that within a few years the level of security on the public transport network has decreased to levels that are inferior to those maintained by the current Transit Officer Function.
Posted on: Sun, 07 Jul 2013 07:23:08 +0000
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