Re: Sydney Ticket Inspectors

["Gail BENNETT" <valleyfm@mpx.com.au>]

Providing the pursuit of an offender by snappers is continuous and unbroken,
they are acting within the law, even off railway property. It must be
remembered, it is not CityRail law, but a NSW State Law that they are
enforcing. They can pursue that offender from Hazelbrook to Broken Hill if
they like, providing the offence is continuous and unbroken (not being
constables or special constables).

They can only use sufficient force to effect an arrest - not extreme force.
An old Sergeant once gave me some good advice, and that was "your actions
must always be viewed in a manner where they can be reviewed by a court, and
therefore whatever you do, you should always be seen doing it in a fair and
reasonable manner".

Gail

Vaughan Williams wrote in message <810tt8$lia$1@nnrp1.deja.com>...
>Hi
>Not sure about sydney, but victorian ticket inspectors do have a power
>to arrest under the transport act, and interestingly enough as
>travelling without a ticket is a breach of the act rather than a
>regulation anyone can make a citizens arrest for it.
>
>Vaughan
>
>> Saw an interesting scuffle when I was living in Hazelbrook and working
>> in Sydney one night a couple of years ago: people came through
>> inspecting tickets (these didn't look like your usual run-of-the-mill
>> ticket inspectors). They caught one unfortunate and hauled him off
>into
>> the seats at the end of the interurban. I was getting out at
>Hazelbrook
>> and he dashed past me, up the steps and down to the pedestrian
>crossing
>> lights on the highway, where the inspectors caught him and carted him
>> back to the station. They were definitely laying hands on him (and
>> outside railway property, too).
>>
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