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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Joe Talora

Scale of abuse faced by TfL staff revealed by new figures

TfL staff at Tube stations across London were subjected to more than 240 incidents of abuse per month during the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, new figures have revealed.

A Freedom of Information request carried out by workforce management company WorkForce Software has revealed that staff at London’s Tube stations faced an average of 245 incidents of abuse per month between April 2020 and December 2021, including 24 physical assaults per month.

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