IPMBA News
Cops On Bikes
Posted: Wed 10:57 AM, May 07, 2014; By: Mike McKnight, WOWT-NBC, Omaha NE The police bike patrol is now rolling and seems to be having an impact at a city park south of the metro. Cassgram reported on issues at Rhylander Park...
Store owners are happy bike police returning
Briana Lonas, Reporter, Prescott Valley Tribune, May 8, 2014. Photo: Sgt. Scott Stebbins The Prescott Valley Police Department has reinstated its popular bike patrol now that budget restraints have begun to relax. The pedaling officers will remain a presence around...
West Haven police add motorized bikes to patrol boardwalk
POSTED: 05/06/14, 7:13 PM EDT | UPDATED: 5 HRS AGO; NEW HAVEN REGISTER The West Haven Police Department is testing out new technology for its Shoreline Patrol division. The department is currently testing a A2B Patroller bicycle, which is equipped with a 500 watt...
Police can better engage on bikes
Spalding Guardian/Lincolnshire Free Press; May 6, 2014 Police community support officers have won the backing of Sutton Bridge Parish Council as they plan to patrol the village on bikes. Three PCSOs who cover the area currently have a car, but they...
Bike cops roll back crime rates
By Natalie Craig, Columbia Chronicle, Posted on May 5, 2014 In an effort to make police more “mobile, social and interactive,” the Chicago Police Department plans to deploy more than 140 officers on bikes to patrol 20 high-crime areas on the South...
Police officers saddle up for community safety
Wirral Globe, Saturday 3rd May 2014 POLICE officers are saddling up for community safety after receiving 20 push bikes from Cheshire West and Chester Council (CWAC). The authority bought the bikes for Cheshire Police as part of a joint campaign aimed...
Vallejo cops to resume bike patrols in city
After almost a decade on hiatus, Vallejo police officers this month will once again mount their bicycles and patrol the city. Along with many other city programs, the downtown bike patrol was scrapped in 2006 as the city struggled financially, and...
In a first, highway safety grant program focuses on bikes and pedestrians
If you don’t know all the bicycle-related rules of the road, Secretary of Transportation Richard A. Davey does not blame you. “I know when I took my driver’s test more than 20 years ago, sharrows weren...