On 11 Sep, 11:08, Jim Gemineye
wrote:
Article in Mail about a bus driver who stopped outside a police
station to report two passengers smoking crack cocaine on the bus -
police didn't have anyone available, told to ring 999!
Full story:http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/liv...s.html?in_arti...

Still, there is always the CCTV - they can catch them later...

Perhaps not, East London Bus Group refused to release CCTV of the men
smoking on board, citing data protection laws.

Well if CCTV is not there to protect us from crime on public
transport, WHAT IS IT FOR?

Your link's munged. However, there's nothing in the DPA to stop East
London releasing the pics to the rozzers (indeed, they're obliged to)
- presumably they actually refused to release them to the Daily
Wail...

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