Station Abcoude, where last Saturday a train employee together was kicked by four black riders. Photo ANP / Jeroen Jumelet
Wilma Mansfield State (Infrastructure and Environment, Labour) would” find a difficult decision “to equip train personnel with standard weapons like pepper spray and a baton. She said this afternoon in the House in response to new violence against train staff last weekend.
PVV MP Barry Madlener had Mansfield to the Chamber called for three new violence against train staff last weekend. Abcoude last Saturday was a railway employee kicked up by four black riders. It was then threatened with death a conductor in Roosendaal and in Tilburg got a ticket yesterday put a knife to the throat.
Plea weapons also comes from union
According PVV’er were Madlener these cases of aggression yet another incident of recent years and the State must take more urgent measures, including the standard arm of train crews. This argument did union FNV Spoor last weekend following the incident in Abcoude. From a tour of RTL also showed that a parliamentary majority wants the option of arming is investigated.
Mansfield said arming crew members not wanting to exclude, but pointed out that “a difficult decision” and “a whole step further “to find. She warned, for example, the danger of an escalation of violence can occur because weapons can potentially provoke aggression. Mansfield further emphasized that the government following a serious assault on Hoofddorp station last month has taken measures. Thus, additional agents on twenty stations and the government will increase the pressure on municipalities to stations, often used as a walk-through passages connecting the OV-gates – half the aggression comes from freeloaders.
train staff Arming can legally all
Legally may almost seven hundred railway employees of Security & amp; Service already use pepper spray and a baton, but the NS now has them so only handcuffs attached to their belt. Mansfield promised to discuss the possibility of further armament during a concert that she has morning with NS, rail manager ProRail and the unions. She said the decision is to want to leave it to “those in the know.” Minister Van der Steur (Security and Justice, VVD) said this afternoon that he will look at the idea of armament, but stressed that a “careful consideration” to be created.
Moreover, the violence against train staff does not increasing. On average there are about two serious incidents per day. In 2011 recorded the railway control room 858 heavy incidents of aggression against staff, in 2012 there were 635, 777 and the year after last year’s 774. Increased willingness to report, partly after campaigns, blurs the picture. Simultaneously judged train in surveys not been so positive about social security.
Read the background story “Suddenly safety in train the topic (€).
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