Jurisdiction
As well as having jurisdiction of the system operated by Network Rail consequential to being a former part of British Railways, the BTP are also responsible for policing:
- The London Underground system
- The Docklands Light Railway
- High Speed 1
- The Sunderland line of the Tyne and Wear Metro (between Pelaw and South Hylton)
- The Midland Metro
- Croydon Tramlink
- The Glasgow Subway (since early 2007)
This amounts to around 10,000 miles of track and more than 3,000 railway stations and depots. There are more than 1 billion passenger journeys annually on the mainline alone.
In addition, the British Transport Police in conjunction with the French Police aux Frontières, police the international services operated by Eurostar.
It is not responsible for policing the rest of the Tyne and Wear Metro or the Manchester Metrolink or any other railway with which it does not have a service agreement; it can act as a constabulary for a transport system in Great Britain with which it commences a service agreement.
In certain circumstances, a BTP constable can act as a police constable outside of their normal railway jurisdiction as described in the "Powers and status of officers" section.
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