IPMBA News
Column: Bee Cave police get new bikes for holidays
By Gary Miller, Chief of Police, December 7, 2016, The Statesman Officer Dwayne Shaw, left, and Officer Gabe Flores of the Bee Cave Police Department prepare to patrol at the Hill Country Galleria on recently-acquired bikes. Bee Cave (TX) -- The holiday...
Bike Index: Bike Registration that Works
by Bernie Hogancamp, PCI #498 Homewood (IL) Police Department (retired) IPMBA President You’ve got a bike that you love, and the last thing you want to contemplate is how much someone might want to steal it from you. ...
Sitnasuak Native Corporation Subsidiary Acquires MOCEAN Holding Company, LLC
MOCEAN President Bill Levitt is excited to announce that on July 20, 2016, SNC Technical Services (SNCT), a wholly owned subsidiary of Sitnasuak Native Corporation (Sitnasuak) acquired MOCEAN uniforms. Bill will continue to serve as president and will oversee day-to-day operations...
Five Ten Impact Clipless VXI, Team Black
by Gary Strang, PCI #1457 London (ON) Police Service IPMBA Membership Coordinator Several months ago, I was on the hunt for a new pair of department-compliant cycling shoes. I had never owned a pair from the “Five Ten”...
Riding or Hiding? The Fuji Code 3-XT Police Mountain Bike
by Mo Ibrahim, PCI #1326-BT/EMSCI #321T-B Metropolitan (DC) Police Department I’m on the top level of a set of stairs. My goal? Ride the bike down the stairs without falling! As I’m...
Bellwether Uniforms: Tack for the Technician
by Mitch Trujillo, PCI #244T/EMSCI #248T Boulder (CO) Police Department Of all the pieces of equipment on the shop floor, hardware seems to garner more attention than soft goods. Maybe it is “shiny object syndrome”. ...
Dunmore plans to increase community policing with bike patrols
By Kyle Wind, The Scranton Times-Tribune, October 28, 2016 DUNMORE PA — Borough police wanted to ramp up bike patrols this summer as a community policing tactic but encountered a problem when they tried to dust off the nearly 15-year-old bicycles. &ldquo...
Police get bikes donated by BMW of Ridgefield
By Macklin K. Reid, The Ridgefield Press, October 28, 2016 Photo: Showing off the police department’s new bikes on Oct. 17 were, from left, Officer George Romero, Sean Dowd of Ridgefield Bicycle Company, Ed McGill of BMW of Ridgefield,...