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❓ Hon Steve Martin asks the Minister for Transport about PTA safety measures, specifically requesting data on transit officer numbers, arrests, infringements for various offenses, and overdue fines. The answer refers to publicly available reports and website data.

AnsweredQoN 210Legislative Council

Asked

28 May 2025

Member

Hon Steve Martin

Portfolio

Transport

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I refer to Public Transport Authority (PTA) safety measures, and I ask: (a) how many full time equivalent (FTE) transit officers were employed by the PTA across the metropolitan area in the following years: (i) 2020-21; (ii) 2021-22; (iii) 2022-23; (iv) 2023-24; and (v) 2024-25 (to date); (b) for each of the years in (a), how many arrests were performed by transit officers; (c) for each of the years in (a), how many infringements were issued, for each of the following offenses: (i) no valid ticket; (ii) smoking on a bus, train or at a station; (iii) consuming alcohol on a bus, train or at a station; (iv) behaving in a manner to cause nuisance; (v) bicycles on trains during restricted hours; (vi) damaging conveyance or station; (vii) placing feet on seats of conveyance; (viii) obstructing authorised person; (ix) interfering with property; (x) continuing to travel when travel has been refused; (xi) possession of explosive, syringe, firearm, controlled or prohibited weapon as per Weapons Act 1999 ; and (xii) possession of tool, device, substance or apparatus capable of graffiti or marking property; and (d) for each of the years in (a), how many infringement fines were overdue as of 30 June?

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Answered

13 August 2025

Responded by

Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Transport

Response time

9 days

(a)        Transit Officer numbers are disclosed in the Public Transport Authority’s (PTA) Annual Report.
(b)        Incident statistics are reported on the PTA website.
(c)        To date in 2024-25, 26,336.

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