The Canadian City Transit Affiliation says cities ought to rent extra safety officers for public transit techniques and provides them extra energy to crack down on harmful conduct on trains and buses.
The affiliation is making a number of suggestions Monday to enhance the protection of riders and employees on public transit within the wake of a current sequence of high-profile assaults on transit customers and staff throughout the nation.
The president of the affiliation, Marco D’Angelo, says we want harder penalties for assaults on transit techniques in addition to extra peace officers on the bottom, particular constables and cops.
He says the federal authorities must also amend the Legal Code to incorporate particular offenses towards all transit staff, not simply transit operators.
The suggestions emphasize that public transport techniques mirror the communities they serve and that points corresponding to homelessness, drug use and psychological well being impression transport techniques when they don’t seem to be addressed.
A number of experiences of stabbings have come on transit techniques in current months, together with one which resulted within the demise of a 16-year-old boy in Toronto final month.
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