{"id":4671,"date":"2018-04-07T18:23:28","date_gmt":"2018-04-07T18:23:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/westminsterradio.net\/?p=4671"},"modified":"2018-04-07T18:23:28","modified_gmt":"2018-04-07T18:23:28","slug":"questions-over-tube-station-safety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/radio\/questions-over-tube-station-safety\/","title":{"rendered":"Questions over tube station safety"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Some tube stations can make even the most experienced London commuter feel either very safe at night or the complete opposite and very on edge. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Earlier this year a stabbing took place just outside of Harrow-On-Hill in North West London which has made local people, especially students at the nearby university in recent months question the safety of these stations they use everyday.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">For locals this may not be something too out of the ordinary, as the local crime rate for the station according to <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ukcrimestats.com\/Neighbourhood\/Metropolitan_Police_Service\/Harrow_on_the_Hill\">UKCrimeStats<\/a><\/strong> had a total of 156 reported crimes on record for January 2018.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/tfl.gov.uk\/travel-information\/safety\/staying-safe?intcmp=5437\">TFL\u2019s official site<\/a><\/strong> has a helpful section about staying safe and secure whilst using the underground. The page mentions how TFL have over 2,000 officers from multiple policing units such as the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.btp.police.uk\">British Transport Police<\/a><\/strong> which patrol the underground. There is also helpful links and contacts for reporting anything.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>\u2018We\u2019re kind of like unofficial security guards for stations\u2019\u00a0<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">James is a tube worker at Wembley Park station and works from time to time at smaller stations such as Preston Road, Harrow-On-Hill. James spoke to us about the security within stations and what measures a regular tube worker in a smaller station has to take when it comes to dealing with crime. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Tuber Worker On Station Safety by Connor&#039;s Uni work\" width=\"500\" height=\"400\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?visual=true&#038;url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F426248655&#038;show_artwork=true&#038;maxheight=750&#038;maxwidth=500\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h6><strong>Tube worker: James explains how they keep stations safe.\u00a0<\/strong><\/h6>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">TFL\u2019s customer care number referred us to their<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/tfl.gov.uk\/travel-information\/safety\/staying-safe?intcmp=5437\"> online webpage<\/a><\/strong> when asked to be interviewed about staying safe on the underground. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The majority of smaller stations tend to have a lower crime rate. Whilst researching which was the most dangerous, a 2016 <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/news\/crime\/revealed-the-most-crimeridden-stations-on-the-tube-network-a3157806.html\">report by the Evening Standard<\/a><\/strong> reported that Kings Cross had the highest crime rate with 457 crimes reported. Oxford circus, one of london\u2019s most nutrioust tourist destination for shopping came in a close second in the ranking with 344 reported crimes within that year and Stratford came in third with 344. <\/span><\/p>\n<h6><em>By Connor Drew<\/em><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some tube stations can make even the most experienced London commuter feel either very safe at night or the complete opposite and very on edge. \u00a0 Earlier this year a stabbing took place just outside of Harrow-On-Hill in North West&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":498,"featured_media":4672,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-archive"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/radio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/radio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/radio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/radio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/498"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/radio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/radio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4671\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/radio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/radio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/radio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/radio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}