The three-year deal, with the option to extend for two additional years, is with the firms Monterrey Security - which already works with CTA - and Inter-Con Security. told the board Wednesday morning.ĬTA riders have complained in recent months about an increase in smoking, drinking, unruly passengers and other problems. “This contract … will more than double the resources that we have for private security services and will give us the tools that we need to really expand our visibility on our system and hopefully start to address the concerns that we hear from our customers about their personal safety,” CTA President Dorval Carter, Jr. On top of additional officers, the CTA’s Board of Directors on Wednesday also approved a $71 million proposal for unarmed security guards to patrol trains and buses. “Individuals engaging in criminal activity on public transportation, or anywhere in the city for that matter, will be dealt with.”Īccording to Brown, these officers will be reassigned from the Counterterrorism Bureau and will focus on responding to gang and narcotics crimes on the transit system, as well as patrolling the busy rail lines. “Officers will be visible and our department will work with the CTA to analyze trends and deploy resources at optimal times and locations,” Brown said during a press conference at the Chicago Red Line station. Police Superintendent David Brown said Wednesday that his department will be reassigning officers to begin serving on teams that will patrol the CTA’s Red and Blue train lines, as well as other train and bus routes.
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