"He had a valid ticket and he hadn't done anything wrong." The "Sydney Morning Herald" reported on 21 February 2009 that the NSW government was considering abolishing Transit Officers and transferring their responsibilities to the NSW Police Force. In September 2011 the NSW State Government announced that the Transit Officer function might be dissolved or moved to the NSW Police Force. Under the State Governments plan the 600 current transit officers would be abolished by the end of 2012. Officers would be offered three options, redundancy, new positions as revenue protection officers or placement at the NSW Police Force College to train to be police officers if they meet the requirements. In February 2012 the State Government announced that Transit Officers would be cut back to 150 positions from a total of 600 and redeployed as non-confrontational 'revenue protection officers' across all three modes of public transport (rail, bus and ferry) with the new title of "Transport Officer". 310 Police will replace 600 Transit Officers in public safety duties as part of a restructuring of the 610 strong Police Transport Command. This occurred prior to the end of 2013.