| 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! |
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| Constables Steve Harvey, Lee Fickling, Dave Heaven and Sergeant Nigel Tottie pose at the Central Area HQ of NYP for the force's official
photgraphs. |
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| 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. |
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| The four Scott Boulder mountain bikes pass York Minster for press photographs. |
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| Sergeant Nigel Tottie leads his team of three constables past York Minster. |
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| The officers line up to show off their equipment. |
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| Police Constables Dave
Heaven and Lee Fickling pause for a moment at the historic Bootham Bar, one
of the gates into the city of York. |
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| A close up look at the warning equipment fitted to the bikes. These consist of a wide angle white light and a white spot light, two blue strobes and a siren. |
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| A constable shows us his equipment. They have cycle specific uniforms which include a range of hi-viz jackets, boots, helmets, glasses and padded shorts! |
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| 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. |
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| Two officers use their white and blue lights and sirens to get through York quickly. Safety is paramount, so the team has been trained to cycle professionally by the local council's cycle safety unit. |
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| An Australian police officer joined York's cycling police
officers on 10 and 11 June 2003. He was touring the cycle police officers
of the world, discussing best practice and sharing ideas. From left to right is Sgt. Nigel
Tottie, Senior Constable Mick Shaw and PC Steve Harvey. |
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| 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. |
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| This police cycle was used for four years
with Hampshire police. It has two powerful white lights powered by a battery
strapped to the bottom of the frame. |
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| 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.
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