Re: Chubb Security

[David Johnson <trainman@ozemail.com.au>]

John wrote:

> I heard on the radio today that the union is against Chubb Security patrols
> before 7.00pm. They say that the positions that are redundent should be
> retrained for these jobs.

Chubb Guards will start patrolling after 14:00 from Monday.  School kids will
ignore them, and during peak hour, they will just take up space.

> The SRA claim this is not possible because it could take 1 year to train.

BS.

> Fact 4. Most of the trouble on the trains does not stop when these guards
> come through the train. A lot of the Guards do not know the law in relation
> to railway offences.

Fact 4.5 A lot of them do not even care.

> Fact 5. Most of the Guards are to busy sitting in the back of the train to
> see what is going on. And some are sitting down just reading the paper.

Exactly.  And when the guard reports them, they get hostile claiming "We do
nothing wrong".  More like "We do nothing."

> Fact 6. There has never been 1 night that there has been Chubb guards on
> every single train. If the SRA guards reported more often about this problem
> the quicker they might decide to finally get rid of these toothless tigers.

Many of the reports do not get acted on, but as it is, Chubb has to pay back
$10,000 - $12,000 a month due to trains not getting patrolled correctly.

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David Johnson
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