IPMBA News
Making a Dent in the Cycle of Crime: London Police Service Expands Foot/Bike Patrol
by Carla Garrett, Blue Line Magazine and Gary Strang, PCI #1457 London (ON) Police Service IPMBA Membership Coordinator This article appeared in the August/September 2015 issue of Blue Line Magazine. A recent overhaul to a decades-old bicycle patrol unit in...
IPMBA Needs You!
by Tom Harris, PCI #861T/EMSCI #030T East Baton Rouge (LA) EMS IPMBA Conference Coordinator I have been a member of IPMBA since 1996, when I attended my basic cyclist course in Baton Rouge, which was taught by Steve Jackson. ...
BSMART: A Solution to Enforcing the Safe Passing Law … Finally
by Rob Simmons, PCI #1349 Chattanooga (TN) Police Department Ever since states starting passing three-foot passing laws, I have been asking my fellow law enforcement officers from across the nation asking how they are enforcing their versions of the law. ...
Bike cops are returning to patrol Bellevue streets
BY CANDY HARPER, KIRO Radio Traffic Reporter | January 13, 2016 @ 4:55 pm The Bellevue Police Department's bike patrol is back in action. The Bellevue City Council recently approved funding for four officers, and a supervisor, to pedal through...
Coun. Pat Lorje calls for expansion of bike patrols in Pleasant Hill
by MORGAN MODJESKI, SASKATOON STARPHOENIX, January 13, 2016 Photo: A group of about 20 bike police make their way in a formation down 115th Street East in Forest Grove in this Saskatoon StarPhoenix file photo. GREG PENDER / SASKATOON STARPHOENIX ...
8th MP bike patrol serves the garrison’s communities
Hawaii Army Weekly, January 8, 2016 Photo: Bike patrol members of the 39th Military Police Detachment, 728th MP Battalion, 8th MP Brigade, 8th Theater Sustainment Command, recently trained and certified on the new International Police Mountain Bike Association (IPMBA) program,...
Jeffersonville Police revamp bike patrol with grant money
Posted: Jan 05, 2016 8:38 PM EST; Updated: Jan 05, 2016 11:00 PM EST By Ryan Cummings, WBRD.com JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind. (WDRB) – The Jeffersonville Police Department is revamping its bike patrol to fight crime on new wheels. It’s all thanks...
Cycling police officers are closer to the public and the concerns of citizens
Rune Monberg Dalhof | October 13, 2015, Cycling Embassy of Denmark In the Municipality of Aalborg, cycling police officers have become a common sight in the urban landscape. “Of course it isn’t possible to take away arrested people...