'Deeply alarming': ScotRail staff attacked more than 1,500 times since 2020

'Deeply alarming': ScotRail staff attacked more than 1,500 times since 2020

While the number of incidents of verbal abuse have been halved since 2022, physical assaults have increased over the last three years.

Rail staff in England & Wales more than THREE times as likely to be assaulted as those in Scotland

Professor John Robertson OBA In the Herald yesterday, the above, and: ScotRail staff have been verbally or physically assaulted more than 1,500 times since 2020, new figures have revealed.  The data, which was obtained through a Freedom of Information request, shows that the total number of assaults on train drivers, conductors, and other staff has decreased each of the last three years.  It’s the usual infantile adding up to get a big number bu…