the camera surveillance system in Stockholm county public transport has been expanded progressively in recent years. In the fall began, for example, equip biljettkontrollanterna with body-worn cameras, and now it is also time for busschaufförerna. The idea has been around a long time and was tested during the fall of 2017 when the three bus routes that were assessed as particularly vulnerable, participated in a pilot project.
“We did a trygghetsundersökning 2017 where it occurs most threats and violence and the most common was against drivers on the bus routes that serve the Järva district of stockholm,” says Kenny Bungss responsible for the safety of SL’s bus routes operated by Arriva.
got ten bus drivers use of the cameras. This resulted in that none of the drivers who were subjected to violence or threats of violence during the period. Even the traveler must have felt safer, according to Kenny Bungss.
From march this year, the cameras permanent on the lines, 179, 540, and 514 in the western suburbs. The decision was made already after the pilot project was completed for just over a year ago, but the procurement process has taken time.
” Unfortunately, we need to work with the vulnerability for personnel in public transport. It is a pretty tough industry where you as an employee are very lonely, ” says Kenny Bungss.
video surveillance set, for example, at stations and other locations in the public transport is not regulated by the body-worn cameras in the kameraövervakningslagen. The difference is that kroppskamerorna is handheld as mobile phones, and that they are not turned on around the clock.
– Just as you can put a camera on the chest and shoot your day busschaufförerna be able to film their day and hopefully be able to prevent violence. At the same time, get the cameras do not violate any and information about the driver filming should be clear for travelers.
From march, will be the cameras permanent on the lines, 179, 540, and 514 in the western suburbs. Photo: Hasse Holmberg/TT
– the Downside may be that it can be perceived as provocative. The possibility is there and we have included in our risk analysis, but during the pilot it was nothing that we saw. Another disadvantage can be that there is a risk of theft of the cameras and the creation of a brottstillfälle, ” says Kenny Bungss.
– But what about privacy, everything is recorded on camera encrypted, so no one, not even the drivers themselves, will be able to see the material in the post.
in the Region of Stockholm, which has been operating for an expansion of video surveillance in public transport in recent years is satisfied that the body-worn cameras will become permanent on certain bus routes.
” They seem to have worked very well. The cameras are appreciated by the drivers, more can feel secure and more travelers who otherwise would have started a fight won’t make it. It is obvious that a threatening situation has been reduced, ” says trafikregionråd Kristoffer Tamsons (M).
On Wednesday present the government a new proposal involving video surveillance in public transport. Proposal through can be more stationary surveillance cameras placed in the Stockholm public transport. Already today there are approximately 20,000 stationary surveillance cameras in the county.
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