GMP is continuing to work shoulder to shoulder with our partners Transport for Greater Manchester (TfGM) to ensure that everyone living in or visiting our cities and towns are able to travel on public transport safely and confidently.
Greater Manchester TravelSafe Partnership is jointly led by TfGM and GMP, existing to keep the public safe across GM by offering reassurance to passengers and preventing and dealing with incidents of crime, antisocial behaviour, and fare evasion.
The importance of this work is increasing as public use of the transport network increases year over year. In 2024, Metrolink set a record for the number of journeys with 45.6 million trips and four million passengers carried each month. Additionally, bus patronage had increased by 5% compared to 2023.
Proactive policing operations across the transport network are also increasing with double the amount of preplanned TravelSafe Partnership deployments in 2024 compared to 2023, these operations are only a fraction of the work our Transport Unit do.
In recent years, operation AVRO expanded to the transport network, where police and partners deploy across all 10 districts increasing visibility in local areas, and patrolling the Metrolink network as well as the bus routes for that district.
There are consistent Project Servator deployments across the tram and bus services, as part of a national policing tactic to disrupt criminal activity and provide a reassuring presence for the public.
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