National Law Enforcement Agencies of the United Kingdom - National Police Forces of the United Kingdom, British Transport Police (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 28. Chapters: National police forces of the United Kingdom, British Transport Police, Ministry of Defence Police, Serious Organised Crime Agency, National Policing Improvement Agency, HM Revenue and Customs, UK Border Agency, National Public Order Intelligence Unit, Serious Fraud Office, Civil Nuclear Constabulary, Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre, Vehicle and Operator Services Agency, National Extremism Tactical Co-ordination Unit, National Domestic Extremism Team, National Fraud Authority, Association of Chief Police Officers Vehicle Crime Intelligence Service, Joint Terrorism Analysis Centre, National Wildlife Crime Unit, National Ballistics Intelligence Service, National Fraud Intelligence Bureau, National Counter Terrorism Security Office, National Domestic Extremism Unit. Excerpt: The British Transport Police (BTP) (Welsh: ) is a special police force that polices those railways and light-rail systems in Great Britain for which it has entered into an agreement to provide such services. British Transport Police officers do not have any jurisdiction in Northern Ireland, where policing of the railways is the responsibility of the Police Service of Northern Ireland. 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: 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 Frontieres, 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 agr...