Cabbies faced 93 threats in a yearMurder, wounded by dangerous dogs and beaten in racially aggravated assaults are just some of the threats cab drivers are facing.
A Freedom of Information request submitted by Bedfordshire on Sunday to Bedfordshire Police has found that taxi and private hire drivers have been attacked 93 times in the last 12 months.
The most common of these offences is ABH with officers recording 35 crimes against cabbies across the county.
This is followed by 30 occasions of common assault. In all, there were 17 types of offences on workers in the profession with 18 charges pressed.
The statistics come after several high profile attacks on drivers. Earlier this month Daniel Rogers, 26, of The Cloisters, Bedford, appeared at Luton Magistrates’ Court charged with the murder of AGS Cars driver 61-year-old Mehar Dhariwal.
The boss of AGS Cars, Fayaz Alhaq, had hit out over the lack of protection his drivers receive from the authorities in light of recent incidents.
Weeks prior in a separate attack, Turbez Ahmed, 29, was set upon by a gang of eight passengers he had picked up at the Harvester pub in Goldington Road, Bedford - all because he wanted the fare up front.
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