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How Port Huron Police will use e-bikes to patrol beaches, parks and special events
By Laura Fitzgerald and Bryce Airgood, Port Huron Times Herald, August 3, 2021 Photo: Port Huron Police Chief Joseph Platzer rides one of the department's new electronic bikes Monday, Aug. 2, 2021, at Port Huron Police Department. The city purchased four of...
Kannapolis Police officers using electric bicycles while on patrol
By David Whisenant, WBTV, August 2, 2021 Photo: Kannapolis Police Officers Nijah Armstrong, Adrian Attaway and Corey Kluttz.(Kannapolis Police) KANNAPOLIS, N.C. (WBTV) - You may have seen Kannapolis Police Officers riding bicycles in the downtown area, and if...
NPD introducing bicycles as new form of patrol transportation
Norfolk Police adds bicycles into their patrolling transportation. By Kadra Sommersted-Simmons, NCN News Channel Nebraska, July 28, 2021 NORFOLK, Neb. -- Cars, trucks, motorcycles... and now bicycles! The Norfolk Police Division has added to their forms of transportation for patrolling the...
Framingham startup has new e-bike designed to assist police departments
By Norman Miller, MetroWest Daily News, July 27, 2021 Photo: 1854 Bicycles FRAMINGHAM — A local company that was created to give a boost to women who have been incarcerated has unveiled a new product that is designed to ...
DC deploys new unit of officers on 2-wheels
By Megan Cloherty, WTOP, July 21, 2021 | Photo: Officers volunteered for the assignment to be part of the community focused patrol unit, riding bikes and scooters in the city. (WTOP/Megan Cloherty) D.C. residents will soon see more police...
DC police to put officers on bicycles, scooters to patrol high-crime neighborhoods amid crime wave
Mayor Muriel Bowser on Monday directed the police department to use "any overtime necessary" to address public safety. By Louis Casiano | Fox News | July 23, 2021 Washington D.C., officials announced a new crime-fighting initiative Wednesday that will...
Patrolling the streets on two wheels
Area police departments revving up their bicycle units By Lisa Curtis, The News Graphic, July 20, 2021 Photo: The Mequon Police Department’s newest bike patrol officer is Austin Boinski. CEDARBURG WI — As a kid growing up in Grafton,...
London Ambulance Service issues emergency alert amid Covid surge and heatwave
By Ross Lydall, The Evening Standard, July 22, 2021, Photo: LAS cycle paramedics Carol Summers and Tom Baverstock with Evening Standard health editor Ross Lydall (centre) / LAS An emergency alert was issued by London Ambulance Service (LAS)...