Police on bikes

The Police on bikes revolution continues apace. The Barking & Dagenham Post of 25 April had two items:

The first says how members of the London Riverside Business Improvement District have donated £4000 for the Rainham & Wennington Safer Neighbourhood Team (SNT) to buy seven mountain bikes - and the Rainham shopkeepers association chipped in £900. [I assume this is in the Barking & Dagenham Post as Dagenham will soon be part of a parliamentary constituency with parts of LB Havering].

The Reede Road Tenants and Residents' Association bought four new £300 maountain bikes from Dagenham Halfords for the Alibon & Eastbrook SNT. The Sergeant in charge is quoted as saying "we were desperate for more bikes".

www.stibasa.org.uk has several articles along similar lines, written since the police cottoned on how effective bikes can be in their work.