Garthfield White has been punched, racially abused – all in their work line which is only getting more dangerous.
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Mr. White is not alone – More than 800 reports of physical phenomena The last one year was created by TFL employees.
The figure balloons when include oral aggression, including more than 10,490 reports of violence and aggression related to the work done by TFL workers in 2023/24 – 5 percent increase in the previous year. Nearly half of these incidents were triggered by contacting the fare andders.
Mr. White was caught by a passenger, who tried to dodge the Tottenham Court Road earlier this month.
“He came through a gate behind a friend, and I tried to engage by sticking my arm, which is a non-aggression approach,” Mr. White said, remembering the incident.
He said, “He immediately caught me and tried to scare me, tried to prove his point to say that he is a strong man and he could handle me,” he said.
Mr. White and his colleagues managed to increase the situation and tried to take details of the man. The police were called, and the man was arrested.
Last year during a separate event at Stratford, a person shouted racial abuse, which “trembling”, and even talking about it “brings back the trauma”, he said.
In another incident in May last year, Mr. White again was a victim of racist misconduct, was punched on his face and spit by a person from Finsbury Park Station, who did not have a ticket.
“He was racial and was commenting on my sister. My sister died three years ago, so it brought something else,” Mr. White explained.
However, he managed to get a broom of his spit and took him police station,
He found DNA of the attackers and discovered that he also wanted for a robbery, which happened a few days ago.
Often, there is no specific cause of aggression towards station employees, besides being closed for theft for theft.
“We do not know the reason for this or is triggering aggression, may be some psychological goods or perhaps it can be the weather, economical or personal items at home, it can be anything,” Mr. White explained.
“Once you interrupt their livelihood or their day-to-day activities, you are going to the mistake,” he said.
He admitted that when he first started a job about five years ago, he was tried to fear that someone was carrying a knife.
He said, “I was afraid, but not anymore because you need to be attached to be able to get the response, and you are trained how to answer,” he said.
“But especially the fear in the new beginning,” he said.
In the last one year, more than 480 blade weapons such as knives have been confiscated by the British Transport Police, who work with Mr. White and his colleagues.
He recalled an incident at Seven Sisters station last year, where a person was seen arriving for something, which the employees believed that there was a weapon.
He said, “We contacted him, and he became violent and reached for something in his bag and because we did not know what it was, we had to restrain him physically,” he said.
“In that example, I was really afraid to hurt myself and my colleagues,” he explained.
Mr. White explained that “obtaining hands is a last solution” and if it is not safe, he does not contact people.