Police want helpful and high-quality tools to do their jobs correctly.
So we had been happy to be taught that Richmond Heights Police Division has gained approval from Metropolis Council to buy 4 new Police-Prepared Mountain Bikes.
The 4 bikes will price residents $10,499.96 and can come from the Boys City Nebraska-based producer Volcanic Bikes by the top of April, with officers anticipated to be within the subject by the summer time, based on town.
The brand new bikes shall be added to town’s current fleet of bicycles, which Police Chief Calvin Williams mentioned are beginning to present their age and shall be saved and used for coaching functions, The Information-Herald’s Frank Mecham reported.
“The bikes that we’re getting come utterly outfitted, they’ve, mainly, the saddlebags on it to hold tools, they’ve the police decals and logos on it in addition to the pink and blue lights on the back and front and a siren for the value that we’re shopping for the bikes for,” Williams instructed council throughout an April 8 council assembly. “The one extra prices are the uniforms for the officers driving the bikes.”
Addressing council, Williams, who labored as Cleveland’s police chief through the 2016 Republican Nationwide Conference, mentioned that he bought 300 bicycles throughout that point and that they had been utilized in half to type cell boundaries to the general public, then afterward, as public relations instruments.
“We utilized them each single day, all day, for the conference,” Williams mentioned. “In the direction of the top of the conference, it type of turned a public relations device. Folks prefer to see squads of 40 to 50 officers driving up and down the streets of the conference when issues actually calmed down.
“It’s a superb PR device, it’s a superb device to get us nearer to our group, to the general public — there’s no divider like with a automotive, and the metal and glass and all that. You might be proper out, and I believe it’s excellent for our 4.4 sq. miles within the metropolis…”
The Information-Herald believes that the brand new bicycles shall be a superb addition to the Richmond Heights Police Division, as they patrol town throughout warm-weather months.
