31.   Though Justice Carol H. Arber did not rule on the transit police, she suggested that the merger of that force might violate state labor laws.

32.   This week, a federal grand jury indicted top officials of a sister union representing the transit police on racketeering charges.

33.   Transit police cover the vast subway system, where crime involves more muggings than murders.

34.   Two days after consolidating the transit police into the Police Department, Mayor Rudolph Giuliani on Tuesday overcame the final hurdle to merging the housing police, as well.

35.   Valentino says that people should notify the transit police if they see a suspicious package, particularly a package being left unattended.

36.   With the mayor withholding money to pay for the transit police, and the courts upholding him, transit officials had limited leverage.

37.   Candelier will now lead the transit police in the capital, Santo Domingo.

38.   In Lille, authorities are to deploy transit police this week, after several young transit monitors hired to keep the peace were attacked and hospitalized.

39.   The governor was angry that a new law ended their duties as traffic officers and replaced them with unarmed transit police.

40.   Transit police took the man into custody.