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Police specials tackle rail crime

Monday 21 September 1998 23:02 BST
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A NEW team of 426 special constables is to be recruited to work alongside the British Transport Police on trains and London Underground to try to reduce railway crime.

Latest figures in England and Wales show police were called to 1,400 serious assaults including three killings and six attempted murders, 21 rapes and 520 indecent assaults.

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