100,000 Miles or Bust!

by Officer Tom Shuler, Badge #525 Boise (ID) Police Department I am one of the lucky ones.  I have been a police officer for 23 years.  The last nineteen of those have been on our department’s year-round bike...

One-by-One: Not Just a Hipster Drivetrain

by Austen Schlecht Castle Rock (CO) Police Department Law enforcement officers around the country are familiar with Community-Oriented Policing (C.O.P.) and the various models associated with it (SARA, CPTED, etc.); but as bicycle officers, we have other ways...

Haix Black Eagle Athletic 2.0 T Low

by Tyler Hofacker, PCI #1700-B Dayton (OH) Police Department When I pulled the shoes out of the box I could feel a weight difference compared to the shoe that I had been wearing for work.  This was not a...

GeoOrbital Electric Wheel

by Lieutenant Robert Palermo Mashpee (MA) Police Department The Town of Mashpee, Massachusetts, located on Cape Cod, is a seacoast community heavily impacted by summer tourism. The Mashpee Police Department was one of the agencies selected by GeoOrbital to participate...

Support the Mission

by Michael A. Wear, PCI #516T-B/EMSCI #059T-B Metropolitan (DC) Police Department IPMBA Education Director What is IPMBA to you and your agency: an answer to your training needs, a tool, a guide, a resource or a means to reduce...

Bicycle Response Team Uniforms:  To Viz or Not to Viz?

by Jason Bain, PCI #1046-B/EMSCI #278-B Saint Paul (MN) Police Department IPMBA Membership Coordinator I have been around bikes since about 2002 and have been teaching the Police Cyclist Course since 2007.  I have been involved with Bicycle Response Teams ...

Banana Benefits for Bikers

by Craig Lepkowski, PCI #1180-B/EMSCI #272-B Lake Forest (IL) Police Department IPMBA Secretary I recently attended a Valor for Blue training session on the subject of Officer Safety and Wellness.  Among the topics presented were diet and exercise....

My Commute: Electrified

by James Englert, PCI #1081 Arapahoe County (CO) Sheriff’s Office IPMBA Industry Liaison I love to ride my bike.  If there is ever an opportunity or excuse to ride instead of drive, I will.  Commuting to work...

Winter: Time to Harness Your Inner Dire Wolf *

by Liz Bouchard, PCI #905-B/EMSCI #241-B Univ. of Guelph (ON) Campus Community Police IPMBA Treasurer It’s that time of year!  Those of us in the North are preparing for snow – if we haven’t...

Embrace Change

Ed.’s Note:  In this issue of IPMBA News, current IPMBA President Wren Nealy yields the “floor” to Allan Howard, who served as IPMBA’s first President, from 1992-1997, shepherding the organization from its formation...