Right you are!
Standby Nanny Staters of the police officer variety, you are about to receive a 93 page manual on how to ride a bike. I know, I know, at last something to refer to if you fall off! Known as The official Police Cycle Training Doctrine, it cost the taxpayers a pretty penny to produce but will give bike riding officers an invaluable step-by-step guide on how to balance, stop and get off their bicycle safely. Brilliant, it’s about time. Ooh and you will also learn how to brake and avoid obstacles without crushing your balls or chipping a tooth. Volume 2 of the booklet tackles the really challenging issues like how to turn right and left into a corner and each issue comes with a handy little diagram. God love them, the “mandatory” national guide, was drawn up by the Association of Chief Police Officers but is still in draft stages and has yet to be approved .
Psst One important rule that the manual reinforces, never ever tackle a crim while “still engaged with the cycle”.
5 Comments
November 12, 2009 at 10:33 am
Well you see Loonie one … it’s kinda like this …. I live here in the Southern Regions of deepest darkest Africa where anything that moves is fair game!
Coppers riding bicycles would become the new national target … so I guess the little booklet would be pointless over here
November 12, 2009 at 3:04 pm
sounds like a wheely good idea to me
November 12, 2009 at 5:04 pm
Do the instructions include the proper use of training wheels? They should be required until the bicoppers learn the proper way of riding on two wheels.
November 12, 2009 at 5:06 pm
I am surprised that health and safety haven’t just made it compulsory for all police officers to have training wheels on their bikes at all time!
November 12, 2009 at 8:15 pm
I don’t know , every time I see our young cops on bikes I laugh. I get this feeling that there is life after the boys scouts and they are taking full advantage of it. Somehow I can’t take them seriously as they always look like they’re just out for a bike ride with a mate. Maybe it’s the bike shorts I don’t know lol.