Membership

Benefits

We are confident that you will find your affiliation with IPMBA beneficial and rewarding.  IPMBA can help increase your effectiveness on the job, reduce your personal and departmental liability and offer you strategies to keep you safe and healthy.  How? 

  • Our publication, IPMBA News, keeps you connected to the issues that impact our profession. 
  • Our internationally recognized training programs prepare you for the rigors of the field. 
  • Our website and HQ function as your public safety cycling information hub. 
  • Our established networks enable you to take advantage of the expertise and experience of your fellow public safety cyclists.
  • Our collective voice is the key to advancing the profession of public safety cyclings and promoting best practices for training and operations. 
  • The board and staff of IPMBA are here to serve as resources to you and your unit.  Let us know how we can assist you! 

The resources, support, and training offered exclusively by the International Police Mountain Bike Association (IPMBA) are yours with membership.  Maximize your investment by taking full advantage of your benefits.  Not a member?  Join today!

Get Certified

Only IPMBA members are eligible for official certification.  IPMBA certification is widely recognized and will follow you throughout your career, even if you change agencies.  It is also the pathway to advanced training opportunities, including the Instructor Course.  Apply for our internationally recognized credential—exclusively for IPMBA-trained public safety cyclists!

Maintain Your Edge

Funding, training, successes, innovative ideas, great new products…learn about these and more in the information-packed IPMBA News.  IPMBA News is written by and for IPMBA members, and is rated by members as their #1 benefit.  Articles are welcomed and encouraged – contact the editor for more details.  It is the only publication dedicated exclusively to the field of public safety cycling!

Earn a Return

Take advantage of the Product Purchase Program, IPMBA’s members-only discount program.  Recoup your membership dues and save hundreds of dollars on products for on-duty and personal use.  Have your membership number ready! 

Connect

Network with your colleagues online:  Follow IPMBA on Facebook page and join the IPMBA LinkedIn group to read and share news and views about public safety cycling.  Post your questions and comments, and benefit from decades of collective knowledge and experience.  Subscribe to the online newsletter below to stay informed about items of interest to public safety cyclists, including training opportunities.  

Share Your Expertise

Be a part of developing educational publications, model policies, resources, training programs, and more.  Drive innovation by testing and reviewing products.  Author articles and conduct presentations about the ways in which you protect and serve your community from the seat of a bicycle.  Volunteer to shape the future of public safety cycling!

Learn more about the benefits in this video presentation, developed in partnership with the Towson University Department of Electronic Media and Film (sorry it's a bit dated, but we haven't had the opportunity to update it yet!).