Originally Posted by rajman
I was talking to our community officer for our school - who also does bike patrol. He told me that it was a option to do bike patrol, and that he could have chosen foot or cruiser if he preferred. Apparently one of the main advantages of the bikes is to run down people on foot - the front suspension/hardtail combo is useful for going down/up short flights of stairs.
AFAIK they are mostly community officers rather than traffic patrol. I think it's only the mounted patrol that they have to apply for, foot, bike or car are options that they are free to choose from - if you want to be on horse, you have to be approved for it...
Horses, yikes. I am a city boy, and not very comfortable around them. My partner and I a few months ago were chasing a couple down the highway that had gotten loose. He actually called out that we were in pursuit of 2 E/B at 7 MPH over the air. I was thinking the whole time, "What the heck do we do with them when we catch them." Thank god he is a country boy and had some rope that he fashioned into a sort of leash, and that the owners showed up quickly
