Mention bicycles and people think fun, recreation and exercise. There’s more to bicycles than that. Many people use them for transportation, while others use them in their workplaces. When I talked to Jackson Police Department Chief Chris Perley about his newly activated bike patrol, I realized bicycles also help civil servants do their jobs.
Chief Perley shared the reasons he approached the Jackson Board of Selectmen in 2019 about funding a bike patrol. The concept for a bike patrol in Jackson was in response to two things: a need for “officer mobility during large public events” and a desire to have an “approachable patrol platform in keeping with the best practices of community policing.”
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