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Amusing stuff from recent GLA transport committee hearings:

Originally Posted by Peter Hendy

As an example, bus crime committed in Lewisham is largely done by people who live there. So if we get the images of people who do it and if we can persuade local media, London-wide media, to carry them, the success rate of identification is very high indeed and I think you will all know from your local areas that the local media that we have encouraged to carry the mug shots - the ’Shop a Yob’ stuff - sometimes has 100% success rate; it is absolutely magnificent. We have had parents shopping their own children.
We had a paper boy in Bexleyheath found behind a bush ripping the front page off every copy of the free paper he is supposed to be delivering because it had his picture on. We have school teachers saying, “That one is in my class”. We have members of the community saying, “I know that face”. It is not just about vandalism; it is about some serious crime and quite often I am very interested to see, even in the national papers, when you see good CCTV images of people the police want for serious offences, they are nearly always public transport images.