MORE Police community support officers in Northampton are able to ride round the streets of on two wheels following funding from local councillors for five new bicycles.
The bikes, worth around £550 each have been funded by five councillors from Northampton borough, who represent wards in the north and east of the town: Tony Ansell (Abington), David Mackintosh (Rectory Farm), Steven Hibbert (Riverside), Lee Mason (Brookside) and Sally Beardsworth (Kingsthorpe).
The funding for the new bikes has been provided through each of the councillor’s Empowerment fund and will enable local PCSOs to cover more of their beats more quickly, while remaining visible and accessible to their communities.
Sergeant Steve Bedford said: “These new bikes, which will be easily identified as police bikes, will be a great help to our PCSOs and a big support to local policing, and we are very grateful to the councillors for providing the funding.
“The bikes will be particularly useful in helping our PCSOs cover larger areas of their beat as well as patrolling along cycle paths and in some of the less accessible areas, such as the back alleys in Abington and areas of Kingsthorpe village.
“As well as being able to get around their beat quicker, the PCSOs will remain very visible to the public and will still able to stop easily to talk to people and respond to any enquiries.”
By Joe Shine
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