Trek Police Mountain Bike
The Billerica Police Department utilizes
bicycles to augment our traditional patrol function.
Quiet, cost efficient, and amazingly effective, mountain
bikes are able to bridge the gap between automobiles
and foot patrol.
Experience has shown that citizens are
more likely to approach a bike patrol officer than
even a neighborhood beat officer; optimizing community
oriented or problem oriented policing efforts. Bicycle
officers are better able to use all of their senses,
including smell and hearing, to detect and address
crime. Bike patrol officers are often able to approach
suspects virtually unnoticed, even in full uniform.
Established in 1995, our bicycle patrol
has been a tremendous success. Our officers now frequent
areas that were never patrolled by police. This is
especially true of our wooded areas and parks where
suspicious activity is often out of public view. In
addition, stubborn community problems have been affectively
addressed by bicycle patrols where the small patrol
area can be a nuisance for criminals.
The Patrol Division has approximately
ten officers, which regularly patrol on bicycle in
addition to their other responsibilities.
