Railway Stations
Some railway stations have issues with youth gangs and individuals harassing passengers and police officers. Of the 143 network stations in the Citytrain network across South East Queensland, Ipswich was worst with seven assaults in the six months to the end of March 2008.
Other stations with just between four and six assaults in the same period were South Brisbane, Cannon Hill, Beenleigh, Central, Strathpine and Caboolture. Burpengary, Bald Hills and Indooroopilly train stations were the only on the Citytrain network to have a grievous assault - defined as potentially causing permanent injury or disability.
However the Queensland Police Operations Support Command say that the network is safe and that the rate of crime is not worse than that in the community in general, explaining that the perception it was higher was due to the close confines of being in a passenger train. The network operator, QR Limited, has implemented various security initiatives over more than a decade that includes closed-circuit television at stations and within trains, and patrols over the network and on-board services by Revenue Protection Officers, uniformed and plain-clothed police officers of the network's own squad, and security guards, to deter crime and assist with identifying offenders.
Read more about this topic: Crime In Brisbane
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