IPMBA News
LCSO to add bike patrol deputies in Berthoud
Photo by Sergeant Badberg – Berthoud bicycle Deputies Fay and Schultz. By Shelley Widhalm, The Surveyor, April 24, 2020 The Larimer County Sheriff’s Office will send out six certified bicycle patrol deputies to ride the streets of Berthoud, but...
The electric bikes featuring flashing lights being trialled by Nottinghamshire Police
By Jamie Barlow, Nottinghamshire Live, 19 April 2020 Police trialliing the use of new electric bikes say they will allow officers to 'cover a larger area in a shorter time'. Equipped with police markings and blue flashing lights, the two...
Death Of A ‘Dinosaur:’ Anti-Cycleway Campaigner John Forester Dies, Aged 90
By Carlton Reid, Senior Contributor, Transportation, Forbes Magazine, April 23, 2020 Photo: “Elitist high-speed aggressive snob!” Cartoon poking fun at vehicular cyclists in “Regional Workshops on Bicycle Safety,” Department of Transportation, 1978. The cyclist with the helmet—...
Guidance for Instructing IPMBA Courses during COVID-19
While some types of public safety group training have been suspended as a result of COVID-19, the decision whether or not to conduct IPMBA Courses ultimately rests with individual IPMBA instructors and their respective agencies and/or contractors. Bicycle operations...
Bike security team protecting city centre streets during lockdown
Security officers working for Retail BID in Birmingham city centre are reacting faster than ever thanks to old-fashioned pedal power By Graham Young, 18 April 2020, Birmingham Live Photo: Retail BID Birmingham has invested in four mountain bikes to enable its...
IPMBA Instructor Status Extension (COVID-19)
Thank you for your support of IPMBA. We hope that you are weathering the COVID-19 storm both personally and professionally. We wish you strength and good health as you continue to protect and serve your communities. ...
Two “Chaps” Go to Bike School
by Lloyd “LJ” Larry, Chaplain Mount Vernon (OH) Association of Police Chaplains Sixty miles. Fifty questions. Nineteen drills. Five days. Seven crashes. Those are my measurable stats from bike school. But Jon...
The Power of Inclusion
by Allan Howard, PCI #001 Dayton (OH) Police Department (ret.) I’m sitting here at the computer, nearly thirty years after I first wrote about police cycling. I can’t believe it’s been that long. ...