scope:

This Guidance applies to all Station staff, including Customer Service Assistants (CSAs), Customer Service Supervisors (CSSs) and Customer Service Managers (CSMs).

The response options are equally applicable should a Bladed Weapon incident commence within the station, or on board a train that arrives into a station.

There is a separate security guidance note that covers the circumstances if an attack takes place outside or in the immediate vicinity of a station. (G2200 - Response options for a Marauding Terrorist Attack external to LU premises).

Purpose

The following guidance has been based upon information developed by Government, British Transport Police (BTP) and the UK rail industry to assist London Underground employees in responding to a "Bladed Weapon" incident.

A "Bladed Weapon" incident is defined as an attack consisting of one or more people using items such as knives, axes or machetes, with the intention of causing mass casualties.