Dublin Bus chief calls for joint security body to tackle anti-social behaviour across all modes of transport
"I would like to see a transport-wide solution to the security concerns around anti-social behavior', Mr Hann told RTÉ's Today With Claire Byrne.
At present, security on Dublin Bus, Irish Rail and the capital's Luas tram are operated by separate private security firms such as One Complete Solution (OCS) and STT Risk Management.
However, Mr Hann would like to see a merged state transport security force, as set out in the government's National Development Plan for 2025.
"If you join up those services and have the one company providing those services, they're working off the one set of data. They can sort of move across the various different modes of transport and address the behavior.
He added: 'They [troublemakers] don't just stop on the bus. They jump off the bus and they go on the Luas. They get off the Luas, they get on the Dart and so on.'
Comparing the effectiveness of current security firms in combatting anti-social behaviour on the country's transport links, Mr Hann highlighted the disjointed nature of the current security infrastructure.
"We can remove people from buses. The private security firms do have, under the citizen's arrest, the ability to detain, but they can't arrest.'
He added: 'We're not just on one campus like the airport police. We're working across a network.'
Mr Hann concedes that introducing the new transport police force is not a 'silver bullet' to fix all problems of anti-social behaviour.
Dublin Bus introduced its Safer Journeys Team last October with six operatives working seven days a week to prevent and respond to incidents of anti-social behaviour across its routes in areas specified as problem hot spots.
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