FOI Request Shows Minicab Rape And Sexual Assaults Through The Roof....But It Must Be Kept Secret.

Reports are coming in from drivers who have done freedom of information requests asking for the amount of serious sexual assaults (including rapes) on customers by Private Hire drivers over the year 2014-15. 

We are being informed that the results of such searches carry a caveat that the results must not be publish in order not to put people off using private hire. 

In 2010, TfL released figures on their website that showed a 54% rise in the number of minicab related rapes and serious sexual assaults carried out by drivers licensed by TfL, bringing the total to 126. 

At the same time, an FOI request showed detection of these attacks resulting in a conviction dropped by 50%, to just 3 convictions.

At that time, there was less than 30,000 PHV drivers. So going by the law of average, using the statistics available to us, last years statistics on rape and sexual assaults would be around 380. 

That's over 1 a day....and that's just the ones that are reported. Back in 2011, we were also told that 84% of victims do not report attacks immediately and that 60% never do. This could mean the actual number of attacks could be as high as 800 or to put it another way 65 a month.

We are now told by LTPH that the number of PH licenses has exceeded 96,000.

If TfL and the Met are worried about the true number of rapes and serious sexual assaults becoming public, because it might put people off using private hire....just how high are the number of attacks......And why are the powers that be, covering this up? 

"Because people may be put off using Private Hire !!!...."

Surely our licensing authority and the Met Police have a duty of care to the public. 

Public safety must 

See our video from 2011. This video was removed from YouTube. We fought hard to get this reinstated. Warning....it's a tough watch.

    

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