The Bike Patrol established in 1995, as apart of our Community
Policing Focus, entirely funded by a
Community Policing Grant issued by the
Massachusetts Executive Office of Public
Safety, the unit currently has 15 officers
assigned to it. All bike patrol
officers were sent to C.O.B.W.E.B ("Cops On Bikes With
an Education Bicycling")
training. The Mountain Bike Unit serves
to expand the departments’ community
policing program.
The mountain bikes are used for
many different town functions including
parades, festivals, crowd control, traffic
control, and directed patrol. This type
of patrol becomes highly effective in grid lock traffic, off road
areas, alleyways, and other areas that are inaccessible to patrol
cars. The police
officer can dismount the bike at anytime,
and pedal throughout the neighborhoods,
plaza's, condominium's / apartment complex's,
and off road paths.
When an officer is on a mountain bike
he/she is much more approachable than when operating a cruiser.
This greatly increases interaction with the citizens of the community.
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