LAPD revolutionizes urban policing with eBikes

Police Dept.’s innovative eBike program, the biggest in the country, is revolutionizing urban policing. The LAPD has a new and better way to police the streets of downtown and surrounding areas – eBikes, in which electric motors powered...

Gears & Gadgets:  Cleanliness is Next To…Professionalism

By David Cohen, Maryland National Capital Park Police Reserve Unit If you’re fortunate to be in a department that has a motorcycle unit, you have probably noticed the immaculate condition in which the motorcycles are kept.  ...

Aiken police receive gift of high-tech electric bicycle

By Matthew Enfinger, the Aiken Standard, February 14, 2020   Chief Charles Barranco, right, Master Public Safety Officer Stephanie Barbee, second from right, and Lt. Brian Kelly, third from right, with the Aiken Department of Public Safety accept a donated electric patrol...

Police get new power - pedal and electric

By Daisy Hudson, Otago Daily News, 1 February 2020 Testing out the new e-bikes as part of a police trial are (from left) Constable Kerrin Williams, Constable Stewart Thomas, and Senior Constable Ruth Parsons, all of Dunedin. PHOTO: GERARD O&rsquo...

Mexican police on border with US to start testing Ukrainian e-bikes

By Natalia Datskevych. KYIV Post,  Feb. 11, 2020 Ukrainian manufacturer of e-bikes Delfast supplies several Top Cop bikes for testing to the police station in Mexican city of Mexicali located near the U.S. border, company announced in February 2020. Photo...

Postcard from Miami: Maintaining order in a Super Bowl city

By KENT PORTER, January 31, 2020, THE Santa Rosa PRESS DEMOCRAT They’re everywhere. Miami’s traffic this week has slowed to a virtual crawl around downtown and Miami Beach. Chime in the Miami Police Department’s bicycle team. ...

Bobbies on bikes want folk to stop and chat

By John Wilson, Hereford Times, January 30, 2020r Members of Hereford South Wye Safer Neighbourhood Team (SNT) on their new bikes. Picture: West Mercia Police NEIGHBOURHOOD police in Hereford have saddled up to fight crime. Members of the city's...

North Bay Police looking to re-introduce Bike Patrols

'We understand the importance of being visible within our community, not just in our cars but by walking the beat as we call it as well as our bicycle patrols' Chris Dawson, Bay Today, January 28, 2020 A North Bay Police officer...

Ian gets beaten up and soaked while saving lives… but he still loves us

Ian Shortman is recovering from a vicious assault just before Christmas, but it won't keep him from his 'phenomenal' calling By Steve Robson, Manchester Evening News, 26 January 2020 Photo: Ian Shortman is one of only two cyclist response paramedics based...

‘Being on a bike is a great way to get into a community’: Bike Cops for Kids officer given surprise

By Kevin Duran, KSTP Minneapolis Updated: January 14, 2020 06:39 PM A Minneapolis police officer is getting national recognition for his work in the community. Officer Mike Kirchen is co-founder of the Bike Cops for Kids program. He was featured on the Facebook...