Re: MELB: Ticket Inspectors

["George" <integral@mindless.com>]

Any Joe Blow can arrest anyone who has committed any offence also, it is
called a Citizen's arrest. But if the person has not done anything wrong you
might get sued. The Chubb Security guards, on the trains in Sydney,only have
the power of Citizens arrest.

David McLoughlin wrote in message <3782D43E.5A7D@REMOVEiprolink.co.nz>...
>Steven Hurst wrote:
>>
>> You have to remember that (I'm not excusing his actions) the public can
be
>> equally as rude.  They think everyone in that sort of job is a prick and
>> automatically treat them that way, becuase of people like HIM, its a kind
of
>> 2 way street;
>
>But this is a public service industry, reliant for its income on
>attracting paying customers.
>
>A ticket inspector should first at least listen politely to the
>explanation/excuse of a passenger without a ticket before accusing him
>of an offence and threatening to arrest him. The appalling problems with
>the crap-arse ticket machines in Melbourne are evidence enough that it
>is not always the passenger's fault that people must ride without a
>ticket.
>
>And I do not think the inspector's attitude has anything to do with
>privatisation. The sale announcements were made only a week or so ago.
>The inspector's attitude was the mark of an officious public servant on
>the state payroll. No private company wanting to keep customers would
>let its staff treat customers like that.
>
>A question: Can Melbourne's ticket inspectors REALLY arrest passengers?
>
>That sounds an extraordinary breach of civil rights.
>
>New Zealand is no great haven of civil liberties, but only the police
>can arrest people here. Attempts by bureaucrats to extend powers of
>arrest to other agencies such as Immigration officers over the years
>have been rejected by Parliament here. I have never even heard a call
>for ticket inspectors to get powers of arrest.
>
>David McLoughlin
>Auckland New Zealand