Police get on their bikes to put brakes on Aberdeen crime rate

by Dale Haslam, Aberdeen Evening Express, May 11, 2018 A new police unit is having results tackling crime in Aberdeen city centre. Police have introduced a unit of officers on bicycles, allowing them to get places quicker than on foot and...

More Greek policemen on…bikes - Innovative way of city policing

By Lida Filippakis / Independent Balkan News Agency,  Published on: 11-05-2018, 12:52 It's not a novelty for the rest of Europe or to be more exact and fair for many other European cities but in Greece it...

Traverse City Police Department Receives Electric Assist Bikes for Patrol Officers

By Jeremy Erickson, 9 & 10 News, May 10, 2018    A new tool donated by some local businesses will help Traverse City police officers get around a little easier this summer. Thursday morning Brick Wheels presented the Traverse City Police Department with...

Full throttle: Federal Way Police Department outfits officers with electric bikes

Photo:  Federal Way Police Department Officer David Johnson, left, and Officer Ben Tseng, who are assigned to the department’s bike team, show off the two electric bikes the department purchased in November. HEIDI  The bicycles provide...

Bicycle Police in Greece Get 64 Electric Bikes

By  Philip Chrysopoulos, May 9, 2018 The Hellenic Police (ELAS) on Wednesday introduced 64 new electric bikes as part of a project to have greater presence in Greek cities, according to the Athens News Agency. The new electric bicycles will be distributed...

Officers on electric bikes: Federal Way leading the trend

POSTED 8:44 PM, MAY 9, 2018, BY KATEY RUSCH, Q 13 Fox News FEDERAL WAY, Wash. -- You've probably seen or heard of police officers on bicycles and motorcycles, but the Federal Way Police Department is trying something in the middle:...

Bicycle officers help police connect with Linden residents

By: Tyler Carter, WCMH, May 8, 2018 COLUMBUS (WCMH) - It has become a familiar scene, officers riding bicycles in Linden.  "When we ride around on the bikes we are more approachable to the citizens," said Officer Nate Hargus. ...

Chicago Police Department adds bike patrols

By Leah Hope, ABC, WLS, May Tuesday, May 08, 2018 06:37PM CHICAGO (WLS) -- As the weather warms, more of us will be outside - and there will be more Chicago Police bike officers. "We know that we needed more officers...

Bike patrol goes flat in Huntly

CAITLIN MOORBY, Stuff.nz, May 5, 2018 Sun and safety are to blame for a failed attempt at forming a police bike patrol in Huntly.  Senior Constables Winiata Leonard and Jay Ferguson started the town's first bike patrol in January. ...

Christchurch police the country’s first to use e-bikes

By Bridget Rutherford, the Star, May 5, 2018 Constable James McClurg made it up to Cashmere while patrolling with ease on one of the e-bikes being trialled in Christchurch. Christchurch NZ -- Some police officers ride horses – but Christchurch cops ride...