IPMBA News
CABDA West 2019 Comes to SoCal
by Clint Sandusky, former PCI #849/EMSCI #159 Riverside (CA) Community College District Police Dept. (ret.) For those of you who do not know what “CABDA” stands for (as I did not, until recently), it is “Chicagoland Area Bike...
Interbike 2018: Well Worth the Experience
by Brian Gillman, EMSCI #189T-B Cypress Creek (TX) EMS IPMBA Conference Coordinator [Ed.’s Note: This article was written prior to the announcement by Emerald Expositions that Interbike, in its current format, would be discontinued.] Interbike 2018 was held...
Interbike 2018: My First and Last
by Scott Bixby, PCI #1684 NY State University Police, University at Buffalo [Ed.’s Note: This article was written prior to the announcement by Emerald Expositions that Interbike, in its current format, would be discontinued.] If you don&rsquo...
Interbike 2018: Goodbye, Old Friend
by Clint Sandusky, former PCI #849/EMSCI #159 Riverside (CA) Community College District Police Department (ret.) In its heyday, Interbike was “the” bicycle trade show and outdoor demo to go to in North America, attracting manufacturers, retailers, inventors, designers, and...
New Year’s Resolutions: An Ongoing Commitment
by Wren Nealy, IPMBA President One of the most time-honored traditions is making New Year’s resolutions at the dawn of a new year. Webster’s defines the making of a New Year’s Resolution as...
CAF Meets IPMBA: From Bicycles to Warbirds
by David Cohen, Maryland National Capital Park Police Reserve Unit Since joining IPMBA in 2007, I have submitted quite a few articles. The one thing I get asked about even more than the content of any of the articles is...
Some Ride to Remember, Some Ride to Forget
The last issue of IPMBA News contained some sobering statistics and articles, not only about suicides among public safety personnel, but also among our own membership. It was a challenging issue to write in many respects, not the least...
Ramsey County sheriff opens community outreach office in former DQ on St. Paul’s Rice Street
By MARA H. GOTTFRIED Pioneer Press, August 5, 2019 Photo: Ramsey County Sheriff Bob Fletcher, left, talks about his department’s new community outreach office at Rice and Sycamore streets in St. Paul before a ribbon cutting with community...