DLR Ticket Inspectors at stations

Jeff_Bridges_hair

yangptangkipperbang wrote: »

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In essence the railway ones do and can get people concerned but in this instance you need to be looking at TfL's Penalty fare scheme which is slightly different and has much higher PFs than the big boys railway.

benjus wrote: »

Just seems like a bit of a waste of manpower. I only saw them today as I got out of the other side of the train due to not noticing I was at my stop until the last minute and having to dash before the doors closed on me. If I'd taken my normal route out of the station I wouldn't even have known they were there at all. They might as well do it properly if they are going to do it.

By being random on where and when they do these they have more chance of catching those who are regular fare evaders and indeed some people seem to be quite adept at evading fares - do you remember the commuter who got fined for £43,000?

I still dont understand why the OP has a problem with this - its everyones responsibility to pay their fare but a lot of people dont and catching them after they have travelled or during is the only way to do so.

yorkie2

Jeff_Bridges_hair wrote: »

...do you remember the commuter who got fined for £43,000? ....

I doubt a fine would be that much. I think in the case you refer to, it was a (botched) out of court settlement.

Jeff_Bridges_hair

yorkie2 wrote: »

I doubt a fine would be that much. I think in the case you refer to, it was a (botched) out of court settlement.

Oops my mistake indeed it was though Im not sure extracting £43k from someone could be called botched

yorkie2

It was botched, because he may end up being prosecuted anyway!

It is unclear, if he is prosecuted, what impact that would have on the out of court settlement, or on any future attempts to settle. People with that sort of money could probably get some very good lawyers on the case to defend themselves.

Jeff_Bridges_hair

Ahh I never knew he is now being prosecuted - not been readin much news... cheers for the update

Stigy

yorkie2 wrote: »

It was botched, because he may end up being prosecuted anyway!

It is unclear, if he is prosecuted, what impact that would have on the out of court settlement, or on any future attempts to settle. People with that sort of money could probably get some very good lawyers on the case to defend themselves.

It was also botched because such persistent and organised (if you like), fare evasion should go to court. The idea of an out of court settlement is meant as a one-off warning. Prosecuting such amounts of fare evasion by one person is in the public interest.

Budding wrote:

I just fail to see the effectiveness of checking people's tickets when they exit stations for fare evaders, because all that is going to do is punish those who are seeing off/picking up friends (and are not evading fares, since they would have never boarded a train).

You've confused me there. This is probably the most effective way of doing it. On train ticket checks are all well and good but it's a lot like a game of cat & mouse, with people alighting every few minutes. Especially in city centre type locations whereby you get the chancres who are only on for one stop, often only a 90-second hop.

At least at the station the evaders come to them! You seem to be very worried about people seeing off relatives etc? From experience, this doesn't happen often enough to be worried about, and even if it does, one won't be wrongly accused of travelling as the Inspectors would have been there anyway to either give them permission to see friends etc off, or to deny this.

In answer to another of your questions, yes they do have the authority to check your ticket all the time they're on railway property. Even if they're not on railway property, if you've come from there without a ticket, they've every right to deal with you. It's just that CCTV etc, along with company policy, would probably prevent them doing so.