NPD Bicycle Patrol Unit

NPD Bicycle Patrol Unit The bicycle patrol unit was established to provide another avenue of responding to the community's needs . The main reason for moving the officer from the patrol car to the bicycle was to allow the officers the time and opportunity to work with the community and to have it become more involved with law enforcement as part of the department's community policing program. Because the knowledge that the Bicycle Patrol officers will have of the neighborhood and the people who live there, they can be the catalyst to develop creative solutions to problems that do not focus exclusively on arrest.

With the snow finally receding, the mountain bike unit will again be patrolling Mines Falls Park and the rest of the City beginning in early April.

Members of the bike unit have attended several Police Mountain Bike competitions.

In the 1998 Yankee Candle Challenge, nine officers attended. Usurping the reign of the Massachusetts State Police, Nashua riders came in first place team, other trophies NPD brought home were:

First Place in the rookie division .

First Place, 19-29 age category

Second Place, rookie division.

Second Place, 30-40 age category.

1997, three officers rode in the Yankee Candle Police challenge, finishing 4th, 8th and 11th all around individual as well as second place team.

New Hampshire Police Association Conventions:
In 1995, two officers rode the New Hampshire Police Association convention, placing 2nd and 3rd individual and first place team.
At the 1996 Police convention, officers placed in first and second place team, as well as 2nd and 3rd individual.
1997 an 1998 Police Association convention, officers again raced and finished 1st place team and second and third individual.

Attleboro Massachusetts, Police Mountain Bike Races: In 1996, Officers finished 2nd, 4th and 5th individual, 1st place team, as well as the farthest to travel.

In the summer of 1996 members of the bicycle unit were involved in a charity event for New Hampshire Special

Olympics. Officer's Keith Enright and Vince Curtis organized a bike-a-thon to raise funds for Special Olympics. Teens from the Nashua area raised donations and then rode their bikes along a 25 mile course through Nashua and Hollis, accompanied by officers from the bike patrol
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For the past two years the bike patrol has assisted the Law Enforcement Torch run for Special Olympics by riding with the runners from Nashua to Manchester.

Law Enforcement Bicycle Links:

Cyclist on Patrol (COPS)

Law Enforcement Bicycle Association

International Police Mountain Bike Association (IPMBA)

The Unofficial Nashua Police Department Home Page