IPMBA News
St. Anthony Police Department to start bike patrol
By Lisa Dayley Smith, Standard Journal, March 9, 2017 ST. ANTHONY, IDAHO — The St. Anthony Police Department will soon have its own bike patrol. That's all thanks to former TV police officer turned St. Anthony Reserve Police Officer Erik...
Johnson City Police receive donation to aid Tweetsie Trail patrols
By Douglas Counts, WJHL, March 10, 2017, 4:01 pm JOHNSON CITY, TN (WJHL-TV) – There was a very special presentation on Friday at the head of the Tweetsie Trail aimed at keeping the trail safe. The Tweetsie Trail Conservancy presented two...
How the US Border Patrol is Using Mountain Bikes to Secure the Border
Posted on March 7, 2017 by Jeff Barber, Singletracks Photo: CBP, Border Patrol agents from the Laredo Bike Patrol unit on patrol in South Texas. Photo: Donna Burton, US Government Work Border security has been a controversial topic in...
May Pen, Santa Cruz police get new bicycles
Saturday, March 04, 2017, Jamaica Observer KINGSTON, Jamaica — Officers from the May Pen Police Station in Clarendon, and the Santa Cruz Police Station in St Elizabeth each recently received eight new bicycles courtesy of the CIBC First Caribbean International Bank. In...
Cops take to bikes to nab driving offenders
By Kate Fielding, The West Australian, 2 March 2017 South West traffic police have fined more than 20 drivers for using mobile phones or not wearing seatbelts during an “unusual” operation in the Bunbury CBD last week. Officers swapped their cars...
‘Sweat with the Police’ raises funds for new trail bikes
by Mike Donahey, Times-republican, FEB 26, 2017 T-R PHOTO By MIKE DONAHEY Marshalltown YMCA-YWCA Group Bicycling Instructor Rob Cooper, left, is joined by Marshalltown Police Officer A.J. Accola during the “Sweat with the Police” event in Studio 1 at the...
Warrnambool police will be out on the beat on bikes, as part of the newly re-instated cycle unit
By Rachael Houlihan, the Standard, 8 Feb 2017 Warrnambool AUS. RAIN, hail or shine, Warrnambool police will be out on the beat with members on bikes as part of the newly re-instated bicycle unit. Bike unit officers picked up their...
London Police Will Pose as Cyclists to Catch Unsafe Drivers
Watch out, that cyclist you’re cutting off could be a cop. By FEARGUS O'SULLIVAN, The ATlantic CityLab, January 27, 2017 Photo: A police officer demonstrating the safe distance for overtaking clearance (West Midlands Police) London drivers beware:...