The Latest Breaking News from British Transport Police

Heroic BTP officers rescue suicidal person from path of oncoming train ‘with seconds to spare’

‘Without their split-second decision making, we’d have certainly being dealing with a fatality’, said a BTP chief

Evening Standard · Dec 21, 2022

Rail worker assaulted by 2 men who refused to leave train toilet

If you recognise him or have any information relating to the incident, please contact British Transport Police by texting 61016 or calling 0800 40 50 40.

Nottingham Post · Dec 21, 2022

London sergeant posed as teen to send sexual messages to 12-year-old girls

A police sergeant who sent sexually explicit requests to 12-year-old girls while posing as a teenager on social media has been handed a suspended prison sentence.

Evening Standard · Dec 15, 2022

Bromley South: Man stabbed rail worker and punched another after trying to dodge fare

Police said victim was ‘fortunate’ not to have suffered life-threatening injuries in ‘shocking’ knife attack

Evening Standard · Nov 29, 2022

Woman detained by cops for fare dodging - despite paying for train ticket

Stephanie Mortimore encountered difficulties with phone apps which meant that while she could prove a fare transaction, she was unable to show the actual ticket she had purchased for her Worcester rail journey.

Daily Mirror · Nov 24, 2022

Person dies after being hit by train in Nottinghamshire

Officers were called to the scene last night

Nottingham Post · Nov 23, 2022

Person found dead on railway line

Paramedics attended but the person was pronounced dead at the scene

Liverpool Echo · Nov 23, 2022

Metal theft hits businesses and Merseyside’s service infrastructure

In the last 18 months the British Transport Police have made hundreds of arrests and recovered thousands of items of stolen property

Liverpool Echo · Nov 22, 2022

The thugs who threatened, spat at or hit police officers for doing their jobs

They were all hauled before the courts

Manchester Evening News · Nov 20, 2022

British Transport Police sergeant asked 12-year-old girls on Snapchat to send him revealing photos

James Chatfield believed he was messaging a 12-year-old girl when he requested she “take your top off” for pictures

Evening Standard · Nov 18, 2022