TfL appear to be in complete disarray after going back on their original statements that all PH drivers have the same enhanced criminal record DBS checks as licensed Taxis.
At a meeting with Taxi trade orgs, TfLTPH admitted 13,000 private hire drivers needed to reapply for DBS certificates, after using an unauthorised company which supplied their DBS certificates.
It was made public in September that TfL had known about this issue as long ago as January 2017, but said and did nothing until the scandal came out in the national media.
TfL said they would write to all 13,000 drivers, giving them 28 days to reapply, (an impossible task), but now, after nearly 4 months, and after the bad publicity has died down and moved on, it has been revealed that only 2,642 drivers have been contacted by TfLTPH.
Because of the mountain of work involved, TfL appear to have moved the goal posts, making this statement to a query from Steve Garelick of the GMB Union:
All London PH drivers must do an enhanced DBS check. After reviewing the 13,000 records we identified & contacted 2,600 drivers who needed to request a new enhanced DBS check with our approved provider.
This is not what the trade orgs were told the in the meeting with Mike Brown, where Helen Chapman said all 13,000 would be contacted and would need to reapply.
It is now believed that TfLTPH only managed to contact the 2,600 drivers in the 28 day time frame, but then decided to drop the issue and move on.
We have been informed by a TfL insider that all 13,000 questionable drivers have definitely not been contacted individually by TfL.
The only way the whole 13,000 affected drivers would have been informed about the current situation, is if they saw the article in the times, followed TfLTPH's account on Twitter...or read about the issue on the Taxi Leaks news blog.
TfLTPH went on to say:
We've suspended 875 licences of drivers who have yet to redo the enhanced DBS.
That's one third or the drivers who TfLTPH actually managed to contact, seen as having unsuitable DBS checks.
The figure for drivers needed to reapply has suddenly gone from 13,000 to just 875 !!!
So what about the remaining 12,125 ?
Going on the statistics made public by TfL in the reply to GMB's Steve Garelick, over a third of the drivers they actually contacted were not fit and proper to deal with the public.
It would be very interesting to find out, how many of the 48 #UberRapes victims fit into this demographic ?
As administrators, surely TfLTPH are libel to legal action for not giving the public adequate protection from sexual predators !
It seems Managers and Directors are leaving TfL at a speed of knots...is it the fear of being held legally responsible for heinous sexual attacks, or the thousands of illuminating emails sent back and forth between TfL and Uber, that are driving staff to resign ?
What are they afraid will be uncovered?
It would also be very interesting to know who made the decision only to contact 2,600 out of the 13,000 who they originally said needed to reapply.
TfL....Totally Failing London
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