CHARLOTTE, N.C. (WBTV) - A group of private security guards showed up on a light rail platform in Uptown Charlotte on Monday, asking riders if they’d paid the fare.

It’s one of the initiatives CATS is enforcing more frequently after the high-profile stabbing death of a Ukrainian woman on a light rail train on August 22.

CATS contracts a private security firm, which supplies 184 security guards, according to the public transit agency. The total contracted amount of security personnel is 219, CATS said.

Former Charlotte city council member, Braxton Winston, said on Monday he believes the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department or Mecklenburg County Sheriff’s Office is better suited to patrol the CATS system.

Two years ago, Winston said he urged the city council to reject the private

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