Metro - File #: 2023-0363

• File #: 2023-0363
• Type: Informational Report
• Status: Filed
• File created: 5/15/2023
• In control: Operations, Safety, and Customer Experience Committee
• On agenda: 6/22/2023
• Final action: 6/22/2023
• Title: RECEIVE AND FILE Public Safety Report.
• Sponsors: Executive Management Committee
• Indexes: 7th Street/Metro Center Station, Barriers (Roads), Call For Projects, Civic Center/Grand Park Station, Cleanliness (Graffiti Abatement), Contractors, Design build, Elevators, Grand Ave Arts/Bunker Hill Station, Hollywood/Vine Station, Homeless Outreach, Informational Report, Law enforcement, Link Union Station, Los Angeles Police Department, Los Angeles Sheriffs Department, Metro Divisions, Metro Rail A Line, Metro Rail B Line, Metro Rail D Line, Metro Transit Ambassadors, North Hollywood Station, Pershing Square Station, Regional Connector Transit Corridor Project, Safety, Safety and security, Security, Sierra Madre, Station 0602, Station 0608, Statistics, System safety, Transit buses, Westlake/Macarthur Park Station, Wilshire/Vermont Station
• Related files: 2023-0467, 2023-0411

Date	Action By	Action	Result
6/22/2023	Board of Directors - Regular Board Meeting

Meeting_Body
REGULAR BOARD MEETING
JUNE 22, 2023
Subject
SUBJECT: MONTHLY UPDATE ON PUBLIC SAFETY

Action
ACTION: RECEIVE AND FILE

Heading
RECOMMENDATION

Title
RECEIVE AND FILE Public Safety Report.

Issue
ISSUE

Metro is committed to providing outstanding trip experiences for all users of the transportation system. In furtherance of this Vision 2028 Goal, Metro is implementing a multi-faceted plan to improve safety and the perceptions of safety for riders and employees. The following summarizes current initiatives aimed at this objective and provides a summary of recent trends.

Background
BACKGROUND

At its February 2022 meeting, the Board received and filed a Reimagining Public Safety Framework (Framework), which outlines a human-centered approach to public safety, guided by the principle that everyone is entitled to a safe, dignified, and human experience. This Framework reflects Metro's Public Safety Mission and Values statements which were adopted by the Board in December 2021. In March 2023, the Board adopted a revised Code of Conduct and a Bias-Free Policing Policy and Public Safety Analytics Policy.

These actions align with numerous initiatives to improve safety and the perception of safety on the system, including the increased deployment of strategic, layered personnel (comprised of ambassadors, homeless outreach, community intervention specialists, transit security, private security, and law enforcement) and the piloting of safety and security interventions to address drug use and crime on the system.

Discussion
DISCUSSION

The Chief Safety Officer is responsible for overseeing safety initiatives on the Metro system and works in coordination with other departments, including Operations and Customer Experience, to implement strategies to promote this objective.

BUS SAFETY

Metro has deployed a variety of strategies to improve safety for both riders and operators on the bus system.

Transit Security Officer Bus Riding Teams

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