Category: Police Cycles

Pedal-powered law enforcement vehicles.

EJ08 KME is a Ford Transit Connect that is used by Wandsworth …



EJ08 KME is a Ford Transit Connect that is used by Wandsworth Parks Police to support their cycle patrol team. It is fitted with blue flashing lights on the front grille.



The rear view of the van, showing the rear access to store the cycles and transport them around the borough. This van was previously used by support staff and can be seen in its previous livery elsewhere on this site.



Here are a pair of mountain bikes that are used by the parks police and transported in the van behind them.

This exclusive picture shows all five mountain bikes…



This exclusive picture shows all five mountain bikes used by North Yorkshire Police’s community cycle unit. Only four are used at any one time – the fifth is a fully kitted-out spare. This photograph is taken at the launch on Monday 15 July 2002. If you look very carefully you can see cycling paramedic Mark Inman, with his life cycle, taking a well deserved coffee break!

A meeting of cycling emergency services personnel. A…



A meeting of cycling emergency services personnel. A TENYAS paramedic and a North Yorks. police constable stop briefly in York city centre. Both community-oriented schemes have been phenomenal successes and have set the president for the rest of the country to follow.

The rear view of the bikes. The battery…



The rear view of the bikes. The battery for the warning indicators is housed in the small yellow box on the back, along with a spare TETRA radio battery and, in the sergeant’s bike, a first aid kit. The large yellow cover (with all of the sponsors listed) hides an A4 sized document wallet for paperwork. Each bike also has a lock fitted.

An exclusive first look at a North Yorkshire…



An exclusive first look at a North Yorkshire Police mountain bike. Five of these bikes will be used for patrolling Acomb. This is the first one to come back from the police workshops where the battenburg markings were added. This photograph is taken in the York Cycle Heaven workshops where the lights and sirens will be fitted.

With police cycles being relatively new to the…



With police cycles being relatively new to the UK, there are no fixed standards and designs and equipment are continually being tried out. Here we see the same bike with a few alterations. It has had blue lights added to the front, a flashing red light at the back as well as more livery.

Attending a emergency cyclists training course are ambulance…



Attending a emergency cyclists training course are ambulance and police personnel from around the UK, including Tees, East and North Yorks Ambulance, London Ambulance, North Yorks Police, South Wales Police, Northumbria Police and Kansas Police Department (USA). The attendees are (from left to right) Gerard Morgan, Monte May (instructor), Kevin Rogerson, Ian McCloud, Ben Whiteway, Russ Harper, Steve Harvey, Sean Clarke, Claire Tinker and Mark Inman.