Bus drivers to be supplied DNA kits to trace spitting passengers

Bus drivers are to be issued with DNA kits so that passengers who spit on them can be traced by the police.

The "spit kits" are already supplied at 275 railway stations and are expected to be rolled out this summer across 7,000 buses.



The DNA kits will allow drivers to take swabs of saliva that can be passed to police and checked against criminal records.

Transport for London says about seven out of 10 samples provides a match. A TfL spokeswoman said: "We have spit kits at every Tube station, where they have been used successfully in several police investigations of assaults."