Public order on public transit
What will the Cap Metro cops do?
Cap Metro has hired its first cops:
Capital Metro took a major step toward establishing its own police force Monday, swearing in the transit agency's first-ever police chief, Eric Robins, and his two top deputies. They'll be responsible for hiring officers and training them to patrol buses and trains starting summer 2025.
"The decision to build a transit police department wasn't taken lightly," Capital Metro CEO Dottie Watkins said before the swearing-in ceremony at the agency's headquarters on East Fifth Street. "I think we might have studied it for somewhere close to 20 years before we finally did it."
Right now these three are the only officers, but the department will grow to 12 by the time it deploys next year.
