Community Engagement through Bike Patrol

by Alan Beadle, PCI #484/EMSCI #076 Sylvania (OH) Police Department IPMBA Membership Coordinator For the past couple of years, law enforcement officers have been in the crosshairs of community criticism.  Incidents such as the ones involving George Floyd in Minneapolis,...

Stepping Out of the Darkness

by David Millican, PCI #1006T/EMSCI #343T Denton (TX) Police Department IPMBA Treasurer A Scotsman, an Irishman, and an Englishman are each sentenced to a year in solitary confinement.  Before being locked away, each is to be granted a...

A Leader’s Learning Equation

by Michael Wear, PCI #516B-T/EMSCI #059B-T Prince William County (VA) Park Ranger Metropolitan (DC) Police Department (retired) IPMBA Vice President “Leadership is not about the title that one holds in a public safety organization; it is about the...

Infect Your Students!

by Thomas Zermeno, PCI #1390T-B/EMSCI #412T-B Norman Police Department, Norman OK IPMBA Education Coordinator Back in August, I was co-instructing during an Instructor Course in Denton, Texas.  During the course, I was reminded of a mantra that I...

The ABC Quick Check of Leadership

by Craig Lepkowski, PCI #1180-B/EMSCI #272-B Lake Forest (IL) Police Department (retired) IPMBA President here is a multitude of books, articles, and webinars on leadership offering an equal number of opinions, ways of performing, and advice to assist in...

Memoirs of a Board Member:  Chapter 5

Ed.’s Note: “Memoirs of a Board Member” is a very occasional series of articles written by board members about the experience of serving on the board.  The first two were written by Monte May, the...

Concord Police to add “high visibility” trail patrols with ATVs [and bikes] following Reids’ murders

Photo:  The Marsh Loop of the Broken Ground Trails in East Concord on Thursday, April 28, 2022. GEOFF FORESTER By CASSIDY JENSEN, Concord Monitor, May 3, 2022 As Concord Police and the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office investigate the...

Ready to roll: Baltimore County police in Towson get electric bikes, thanks to community donations

Photo by: Baltimore County FOP Baltimore County police train to use electric bikes By: Bryna Zumer, WMAR Channel 2, April 29, 2022 TOWSON, Md. — Baltimore County police in the Towson precinct will soon be zipping around town on electric bikes, thanks...

N-Force Is a Conceptual Design Aimed at Replacing the Modern Tactical Police Bicycle

Let's face it, bicycles are so much more than just a device for getting to work or going grocery shopping. Some people actually work on these timeless vehicles. One group of people to use bicycles for work are police...

Providence police revives bike patrol unit thanks to increased staffing, funding

by: Sarah Doiron, Anita Baffoni, WPRI, May 2, 2022 PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — The Providence Police Department has received five new bicycles in a bid to bolster the capital city’s community policing initiative. The bike patrol unit...