Will cameras help stop violence toward taxi drivers?

Sure cameras will help a little. However, fair charges and not taking the long way in order to rip off clientele would help even more!

Anything that would keep anybody would be an advantage if only for a deterrent. I personally would like to have an ejector button

Safe way to avoid danger is to build taxis with a separate sealed in compartment like the police vans..

The drivers should carry hand-guns in their cabs.

it is not really clear to have camera.any crime can also destroy the camera system easily. and people drank never care what is their behave. only people take advantage is the camera salers and installers.

My partner is a driver and anything that makes his job safer surely is a great thing. In the work place there are usually strict Health & Safety regulations. In a taxi there is one driver with up to 3 passengers - the odds are a bit different. I am happy if a camers acts as a deterent to unacceptable behaviour - yes I take that!

Anything and everything to make a Taxi Driver safe doing his job - if they need cages, cameras, flashing lights, alarms -loud speakers from inside the cab - make it happen

What about bus drivers

A step in the right direction. Will also help with the idiots who do runners without paying.

Service stations, banks, pharmacies and dairies all have recorded video surveillance — it makes for better reality TV but doesn't seem to deter anyone from doing anything, however it may deter some people from using Taxis. It's just more regulation for the sake of doing SOMETHING - ANYTHING - to react to a tragedy. We're like that in New Zealand. If you talk to drivers who have served the industry a long time they will tell you that the incidence of violence is less, but the severity of incidents is greater. It's a sign of the times, and surveillance isn't helping. I don't imagine that having recorded surveillance will help with absconding fares either because the Police just don't have the time.