Re: Violence on Sydney trains

[Santosh Bhat <santosh@student.unsw.edu.au>]

Interesting point that,Why are about 80~90% of the Chubb security gaurds
of Indian origin, maybe not now, but when they were first introduced. As
these "security" gaurds dont seem to be able to do much, other than
prance about trains threatening people with their pens to behave, i
doubt there was a need for a level of qualification not avialable in
Australia but for a few. 
	
	Surely there are unemployed people already in Sydney who would be able
to stay up the late hours to walk up and down two carriages. And im not
being racist, i am an Australian-Indian myself.
	
	Cheers
	Santosh

Bill Bolton wrote:
> 
> ROY HOWARTH <rhowarth@ihug.com.au> wrote:
> 
> > I don't think the Chubb guards have the authority to enfore the
> > 1988 Transport Administration Act, which bascially means they're about as
> > much use as the Keystone Cops.
> 
> Oh my golly gosh..... the requirement to understand English also seems
> to have been left out of the job specification.
> 
> The two Chubb guards, of obvious Indian sub-continent extraction, that
> I observed on a North Shore service recently had extreme trouble
> understanding anything that several well spoken passengers tried to
> tell them about a disturbance in an adjoining carriage.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Bill