TravelSafe Partnership

TravelSafe is a partnership brought together to help support a safe and secure transport network across Greater Manchester.

The Partnership is jointly led by Bee Network and Greater Manchester Police, with support from:

• British Transport Police (BTP)
• The Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA)
• KeolisAmey Metrolink
• Beryl
• Foundation 92
• Northern Rail
• Stagecoach
• First Manchester
• Go North West
• Diamond Buses
• Arriva

What does the partnership do?

The Partnership works together to help prevent and tackle crime, antisocial behaviour and fare evasion on Greater Manchester's public transport networks.

This includes:

• Dedicated, intelligence-led operations using resources such as knife-arches, sniffer dogs and drones.
• Visible policing with staff and officers spending more than 5,000 hours per week patrolling the Metrolink and bus networks, day and night, seven days a week.
• Community engagement with schools, colleges and universities.

The partnership also use a range of other tactics, such as Restorative Justice and neighbourhood watch schemes.

Where the situation warrants it the Partnership can:

• remove passes
• issue exclusion orders from TfGM premises
• apply for Civil Injunctions against persistent offenders.

What does the Partnership stand for?

We:

• adopt a partnership approach
• work with neighbourhood police teams, local authorities all other key partners
• problem-solve and tackle causes
• use data and intelligence to focus our work