Security needed to address sense of 'lawlessness' on Metro Vancouver buses: union
Metro Vancouver Transit Police say officers are deployed throughout the system based on intelligence reports and crime statistics.
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Metro Vancouver Transit Police say officers are deployed throughout the system based on intelligence reports and crime statistics.
VANCOUVER - There's a sense of "lawlessness" aboard buses in Metro Vancouver that will require a "culture shift" to fix, said a director of the bus drivers union in relation to a spate of violent incidents on transit in B.C. and beyond.
Violence on public transit and in city spaces across Canada has increased since the COVID-19 pandemic, Calgary police Chief Mark Neufeld said in relation to a spate of assaults in his city as well as Edmonton, Metro Vancouver and Toronto.
Unifor: more visible, consistent presence of transit police and security on board buses needed
Violence on public transit and in city spaces across Canada has increased since the COVID-19 pandemic, Calgary police Chief Mark Neufeld said in relation to a spate of assaults in his city as well as Edmonton, Metro Vancouver and Toronto.