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BICYCLE PATROL

Concurrent to my DARE and SRO assignments I took an urban police bicycle patrol course with a group of Washington State
Police troopers on bikes to become a certified bicycle patrol officer. It was several days long.

Yep. Put me in a line up with a bunch of state troopers and I’ll always be the shortest one.

I did bike patrol mostly for special events; the most important one was when the King and Queen of Norway came to town in
1995; escorted by a large phalanx of state police motorcycles. The motorcade came flying into town at double the speed limit,
literally running me off the road on my bicycle. Check out that old Suburban used by their security detail - I wish I had taken
some better pictures of that for our amusement now!

As a bike officer, I participated in a lot of “bike rodeos” for kids – which looked a lot like traffic cones in parking lots to make a
little skills course for kids to ride their bikes and practice hand signs and riding while being alert, and how to wear helmets
correctly, etc. and I made sure a lot of helmets were snug on a lot of little heads.