Police - Mountain Bike Patrol
The City of Poughkeepsie Police Department began it’s bicycle patrol in 1994 with three officers patrolling Main St. The officers were trained by (Ret.) Lt. Jose Dominguez of the City of New York’s Housing Police department, one the Country’s largest bike units. Each bike officer attends 40 hours of intensive training and one additional day of training per month to keep his/her skills efficient. Our bike unit has long since been the premier site of Law Enforcement bike training in New York State. Poughkeepsie holds more bike patrol classes and trains more officers in basic, advanced, bike officer narcotics and mechanical classes than any other department in New York State. Members of the unit are trained and Nationally certified. All of our instructors are trained in a very intensive 48-hour National certification. Most of our unit instructors are Nationally certified Master instructors. Our senior most instructor has been responsible in part for authoring New York’s first basic curriculum on bike patrol, assisting Heckler and Koch with the Mountain bike officer survival course design, which was the original design of Smith and Wesson’s Police bicycle.