Port Huron Police Department gets new set of wheels with four e-bikes

Residents absorbing the solar on the metropolis of Port Huron’s seashores may discover members of the Port Huron Police Division on new wheels. 

The town not too long ago bought 4 new electrical bikes for the division. Metropolis Supervisor James Freed stated the bikes had been bought from Alpine Cycles as one other manner for the division to attach with the general public by being seen within the metropolis’s neighborhoods. 

“That is one other part of group policing,” he stated. “Like the old-fashioned beat cops strolling down the sidewalk, we wish to get again to that, the place you bodily can see an officer in your neighborhood.”

The bikes will likely be utilized by the cadets to patrol Lakeside and Lighthouse seashores, town’s parks and Thomas Edison Parkway, and at particular occasions akin to Boat Week and the unsanctioned occasion generally known as Float Down, Port Huron Police Chief Joe Platzer stated. 

Assistant Chief Marcy Kuehn stated the cadets have an growing older fleet, which is comprised of hand-me-down bikes from the officers. 

Platzer and Kuehn likened the bikes to individuals approaching their Segways throughout Boat Night time, giving them the prospect to work together with residents. 

“The (assistant chief) and I went out on the Segways throughout Boat Night time, the quantity of people who come as much as us and say, ‘that is so cool, glad you are out right here,'” Platzer stated. 

“We’d cease continuous and discuss to individuals,” Kuehn added. “Any time you will get a cop out of a police automobile and in the neighborhood on a motorbike or a Segway or strolling it is a win-win.”