Over 300 hires per year for three years, from 2023 to 2025 inclusive, until reaching a staff of 1500 people to ensure greater safety in Italian stations, on trains and in railway areas.
This is the plan on the desk of Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Infrastructure and Transport, Matteo Salvini, who is in constant contact with the FS group and the Ministry of the Interior with the aim of supporting the police force by increasing the number of security personnel".
Ministry sources indicate this. “Protecting citizens who work and travel is a priority for this government,” underlines Matteo Salvini.
The aim is to "raise the level of tranquility in the hubs of Milan, Florence, Rome and Naples with the aim of strengthening controls also in the hubs that will soon be activated (between 2023 and 2026) in Venice, Turin and Bari and in the various existing territorial offices or those that will be inaugurated shortly.
These are offices that guarantee services to the public and are located in Turin, Milan, Genoa, Verona, Venice, Bologna, Florence, Ancona, Rome, Naples, Bari, Reggio Calabria, Palermo. In a longer-term horizon there will also be a ribbon cutting in Trento, Trieste, Perugia, Pescara, Cagliari”, it is indicated, underlining that they are “all realities that deserve greater attention on the security front”.
An aspect that is highlighted by quoting the statistics collected by the FS group. “Thefts against travellers have hit, in the last five years, above all Milan Central (2.000 thefts, 256 in the last two years), Rome Termini (more than 1.000, 88 in the last two years), Bologna Central (more than 500), Pisa (more than 500), Rome Tiburtina (more than 300), Naples Central (more than 250, 62 in the last two years), La Spezia Central (more than 200), Turin Porta Nuova (more than 200)”.
The FS Group “with the progressive introduction of gates, has recorded an 2015% reduction in the number of thefts since 80,4”. But it is also highlighted that “unfortunately, other illegal episodes such as copper theft or attacks on staff are recorded in railway areas. In 2022, 32 attacks on workers occurred: 4 at Milano Centrale, 13 at Firenze Santa Maria Novella, 5 at Roma Termini, 10 at Napoli Centrale.
All this without forgetting acts of vandalism such as graffiti and in general damage to railway assets (stations and trains)”. and “acts of sabotage to block normal activity, a massive presence of travellers without tickets, abusive activities of various types such as occupations, illicit sales, annoying presences”.
Article published on 5 January 2023 - 15:26
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