IPMBA News
Dunmore plans to increase community policing with bike patrols
By Kyle Wind, The Scranton Times-Tribune, October 28, 2016 DUNMORE PA — Borough police wanted to ramp up bike patrols this summer as a community policing tactic but encountered a problem when they tried to dust off the nearly 15-year-old bicycles. &ldquo...
Police get bikes donated by BMW of Ridgefield
By Macklin K. Reid, The Ridgefield Press, October 28, 2016 Photo: Showing off the police department’s new bikes on Oct. 17 were, from left, Officer George Romero, Sean Dowd of Ridgefield Bicycle Company, Ed McGill of BMW of Ridgefield,...
White Oak police officers ditch patrol cars for bicycles
By Meredith Shamburger, Oct. 24, 2016, Longview News-Journal White Oak TX -- The White Oak Police Department is deploying two new crime fighting tools among the city's neighborhoods and parks: bicycles. White Oak police said that while the idea of...
Dunmore Police New Patrol Bikes
By Jayne Ann Bugda, PAHomepage.com, October 27, 2016 DUNMORE, LACKAWANNA COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) Several police will be patrolling their community on two-wheels instead of four, now that they have some brand new bikes. Local businesses, including Toyota of Scranton, donated...
Algonquin-Lake in the Hills fire district to implement paramedic bike program
By Hannah Prokop, Northwest Herald, October 23, 2016 LAKE IN THE HILLS – At future races or community events, people may see members of theAlgonquin-Lake in the Hills Fire Protection District riding paramedic bikes. Two bikes, worth about $1,300 each, were donated...
Cops set for crackdown on dangerous drivers as they hit the road on bikes
BY GRAEME DONOHOE, Scottish Daily Record and Sunday Mail., 23 October 2016 UNDERCOVER officers will get on their bikes and hit the roads to target irresponsible drivers who put the lives of cyclists in danger. UNDERCOVER police on bikes will hit...
Abu Dhabi Police launch bicycle patrols
The National staff, October 20, 2016 Abu Dhabi Police have launched bicycle patrols to cut response times. The patrols will cover tourist areas, residential neighbourhoods and commercial centres throughout the island of Abu Dhabi. Officers on bike can often reach accidents and...
Police bike squad gets rolling around the Hills
By Bev Jordan, Hills Shire Times, October 19, 2016 9:41pm NSW - Members of the NSW Police bicycle unit are out about in the Hills today on the police mountain bikes. The high visibility bike patrol members are on parol in Rouse...