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TfL's Tube fare-dodger crackdown nets fewer than one arrest a day despite losses of up to £210m a year

Seven Kings station in east London, where a fare dodger who avoided paying across 530 journeys was caught by Transport for London investigators, as Operation Vector targets evasion costing TfL an estimated £190m a year.
Seven Kings station in east London, where a fare dodger who avoided paying across 530 journeys was caught by Transport for London investigators, as Operation Vector targets evasion costing TfL an estimated £190m a year.

Operation Vector, TfL's intelligence-led joint scheme with British Transport Police, has stopped 467 people and issued 156 penalty fares since launching on 5 October — but made only 24 arrests across nearly a month of operations.

Fare evasion costs TfL up to £210 million a year, with the network targeting a rate below 1.5 per cent by 2030/31.

Plain-clothed officers are deployed beyond ticket gates using data from frontline staff to target persistent offenders at hotspot stations.

TfL security chief Siwan Hayward claimed 'huge successes' in early weeks, with 175 reports submitted for possible prosecution.

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