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Grandview Police Department adds bike patrols to increase accessibility to officers
Fox 4 KC, SEPTEMBER 7, 2016, BY KERRI STOWELL GRANDVIEW, Mo. -- A local police department is finding new ways to protect and serve by adding bicycles to its fleet. The Grandview Police Department is rolling out the new addition saying bike...
SHERIFF’S BIKE PATROL EDGERTON, DE SOTO
By The Gardner News, Sep 7, 2016 Photo: Members of the Johnson County Sheriff’s bike patrol are (l to r): Deputy Ryan Fulks, Deputy Jonathan Keys, Lt. Thomas Reddin, Deputy Matt Brown and Deputy Tim McWilliams. Photo...
LPD bike patrol program proves beneficial for the community
By DEBRA TOBIN, Logan Daily News, September 6 Logan Police Patrolman Jason Gadrim is the department's official trainer for the bike program that has been proven to be beneficial to the department. Gadrim sometimes logs 20-plus miles per night while...
On the cycle is your friendly cop
Sindhu Kannan, The Times of India, Sep 5, 2016, 07.36 AM IST CHENNAI: As the green cycle, with a siren, walkie-talkie, and affixed with a Chennai city police logo makes its way through the narrow streets of Pallakuma Nagar in Mylapore, echoes of...
Slice of past makes a comeback
The Times of India, Sep 5, 2016, 07.41 AM IST When 70-year-old history enthusiast Vakula Varadarajan heard the tinkle of a cycle bell in West Mambalam recently, he did a double take to register the anachronism as a policeman pedalled past. The khaki...
Legal challenge to police-unit ballot measure says it won’t increase ‘bike patrols’
Arguments in favor of Proposition R said the measure would increase Police Department bike patrols, but one bicyclist says that language is misleading. (Michael Ares/Special to S.F. Examiner) By Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez, the San Francisco Examiner, September 5, 2016 1:00...
BIKE TRIAL SUCCESS FOR POLICIA LOCAL
03/09/2016, The Costa Blanca and Costa Colida Leader Elche local police have reported a significant increase in the number of crimes detected and resolved on the beaches at Los Arenales this year, thanks to their patrols taking to two wheels...
Cops are finding sneaky new ways to catch texting drivers
By Associated Press, September 2, 2016 | 11:34am Police Officer Matthew Monteiro speaks to a motorist about texting while driving while patrolling on his bicycle in West Bridgewater, Mass. Photo: AP State police in Chattanooga, Tennessee, have been known to patrol...