{"id":1036885,"date":"2026-06-19T14:13:17","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T14:13:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1036885\/"},"modified":"2026-06-19T14:13:17","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T14:13:17","slug":"moment-hero-tfl-ticket-inspector-stops-fare-dodger-in-barrier-scuffle-at-london-station-as-hundreds-heap-on-praise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1036885\/","title":{"rendered":"Moment &#8216;hero&#8217; TfL ticket inspector stops fare dodger in barrier scuffle at London station &#8211; as hundreds heap on praise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A TfL spokesperson said: \u201cFare evasion is a criminal offence and robs Londoners of investment in safe, clean and reliable public transport. By focusing our enforcement teams on locations with a high prevalence of people pushing through gates and using the latest technology to target the most prolific fare evaders across the network, the pan-TfL fare evasion rate has dropped to 3.5 per cent from down from 3.9 per cent in 2022\/23 . This builds on the work of our team of more than 500 uniformed officers already deployed across the network to deal with fare evasion and other anti-social behaviour, keeping staff and customers safe, and we\u2019re pleased to see our officer deal with this situation in line with the training all our officers receive on managing conflict.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A TfL spokesperson said: \u201cFare evasion is a criminal offence and robs Londoners of investment in safe, clean&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1036886,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7757],"tags":[62175,748,393,4884,257,115779,14252,1264,16,15],"class_list":["post-1036885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-london","tag-barriers","tag-britain","tag-england","tag-great-britain","tag-london","tag-officer","tag-sadiq-khan","tag-tfl","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116777189540845901","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1036885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036885\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1036886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1036885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1036885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1036885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}