Ottawa police to drivers: Beware the one-metre bike rule

By AIDAN COX, POSTMEDIA, June 21, 2016 A sonar device sounds almost too high-tech to accompany the bells and mirrors usually mounted on a bike’s handle bars. Ottawa police, however, were using them on their bicycles Thursday to...

Kenney: Philly Will Not Buy an Armored Vehicle for the DNC

The mayor at the National Press Club: “We like bicycles. Police on bikes are very effective.” BY CLAIRE SASKO, Philadelphia Magazine, JUNE 22, 2016 Philly will not buy an armored vehicle for the Democratic National Convention this...

Deputies on bikes

By Jeff Bahr, the Grand Island Independent, June 21, 2016 Sheriff’s department officers more approachable on bicycle Deputies Melissa Kier (left) and Camela Jiskra are the newest members of the Hall County Sheriff’s Department bicycle patrol. (Independent/Jeff...

Clermont County police initiate nighttime bicycle patrol

'Night Eyes' program targets opportunity crime WLWT Cincinnati, June 17, 2016 MIAMI TOWNSHIP (Clermont County), Ohio — A knock on your door in the middle of the night from police is something you never want to hear. But, in one community,...

Fort Worth bike, horse patrols headed to Republican National Convention in July

Fort Worth Police bike patrol officers will help provide security at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland next month. Rodger Mallison Star-Telegram archives BY SANDRA BAKER, Star-Telegram, June 20, 2016 FORT WORTH  Fort Worth Police are sending 30 officers —...

The “I Love U Guys” Foundation

by James Englert, PCI # 1081 Arapahoe County (CO) Sheriff’s Office IPMBA Industry Liaison Hopefully you had the chance to attend the IPMBA conference in Asheville, North Carolina, April  23-30, 2016.  One of the many highlights was our keynote...

Beyond Philadelphia - The Papal Visit

by John Gillespie, EMSCI #230 Radnor (PA) Fire Company While not in the thick of the event itself, the months of preparation did not skip the agencies surrounding the City of Philadelphia.  Radnor Fire & Ambulance, located 13 miles west of...

Doing the Reverse Rocky

by Maureen Becker IPMBA Executive Director It was September 26, 2015, and the City of Philadelphia was indeed alive with Brotherly Love.  The World Meeting of Families was in full swing and hundreds of thousands of adoring fans had flooded the...

Holy Bike Patrol!

by Michael Gommer, PCI #1105-B Upper Dublin (PA) Police Department On the weekend of September 26-27, 2015, His Holiness, Pope Francis, traveled to the City of Philadelphia for the World Meeting of Families.  Preparation for this monumental visit began more...

Twin “W” and the Papal Visit Stand-By

by Chris Polgar Twin “W” EMS (NJ) When the Philadelphia Fire Department (PFD) reached out to Twin “W” to help out with the Papal Visit Stand-By, I was excited!  I had no idea how they...