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The county's pioneering Safer Travel Unit was the centre of national media attention recently when Trevor MacDonald sent his cameras to Lancashire.
Council officers teamed up with police officers to give the TV crew an inside view of the work done to make public transport safer for all.
Rick Wilson, the STU manager, explained: "The producers approached us some time ago as they had heard that Lancashire had a particularly innovative approach to tackling anti-social behaviour.
"For a few years now we have been developing a new way of making public transport a better way to travel. This includes running our own lessons in schools, providing bus companies with training DVDs and carrying out on-the-spot checks of buses."
St Christopher's CE High School, Accrington, where the idea of "bus prefects" was trialled some years ago, received a visit from the ITV producers.
The year 11 pupils act as the "eyes and ears" on buses, dealing with minor incidents and reporting major ones. There are now 620 travel prefects at schools county-wide with more coming on-board each year.
Viewers also saw the police and Safer Travel Unit officers board buses to check for anti-social behaviour.
Rick said: "The way we work to make public transport safer for everyone means that we are in the spotlight quite often - but it doesn't mean that there is a bigger problem in the county.
"In fact, the work we are doing is inspiring similar projects in other parts of the country."
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