IPMBA News
Seattle Police Mount Their Bikes And Prepare For A May Day Ride
What’s the best tool when you have boisterous crowds mixing with police officers in a dense urban area? For the Seattle Police Department, it might be bikes. SPD officers took a refresher course last week on managing demonstrations...
New mountain bikes help Meriden police become closer to the community
By Lauren Sievert, Record-Journal staff; Published: April 30, 2014 | Last Modified: April 30, 2014 01:15AM MERIDEN — Officers in the neighborhood initiative unit are riding easier with new mountain bicycles, the first new bikes in decades. Lt. Steve Lespier, commander of the neighborhood...
Police: Suspect in wild chase drove 65 mph, blew through stop signs, red lights
By Manuel Gamiz Jr., Of The Morning Call, 8:37 pm, April 28, 2014, The Morning Call The drug suspect who injured three Allentown police officers as his car barreled through center city Friday reached speeds of up to 65 mph and ran through...
Boston Police Tested Some New Wheels During the Marathon
A donor gave the department never-before-tested electric bikes specifically for race day. By Steve Annear | Boston Daily | April 24, 2014 10:16 am Police presence wasn’t the only thing that was beefed up on Marathon Monday. BPD officers got the chance to...
Bike patrol cruises Portland streets
Dessislava Yankova, Nashville3:38 p.m. CDT April 21, 2014, The Tennesseean (Photo: DESSISLAVA YANKOVA / Gallatin News Examiner) The Portland Police Department is getting stealthier — on two wheels. The department is re-instating its bicycle patrols, which were cut in 2008 due to a...
Sweetwater police say bike patrol is discouraging crime at Dolphin Mall
BY RODOLFO ROMAN, SPECIAL TO THE MIAMI HERALD, APRIL 22, 2014 Sweetwater police say a new bicycle patrol unit has cut crime at the Dolphin Mall. At this month’s City Commission meeting, Police Chief Jesus Menocal said the mall...
TWO-WHEELED JUSTICE: MODERN BICYCLE POLICING
The Blauer Dispatch, Posted on April 15, 2014. Most of us had a bike as kids, usually a Huffy or Schwinn bedecked with the popular accoutrements of the era (ranging from tassels on the handlebars, to baseball cards in the wheel spokes,...
County police bike patrols begin this week
Posted: Sunday, April 20, 2014 4:30 pm |Updated: 8:30 pm, Sun Apr 20, 2014. By Jane Bellmyer, the Cecil Whig NORTH EAST — Cecil County residents are familiar with seeing police officers in their patrol cars or perhaps on foot patrol. Starting this week, however,...