By David Travis Bland
The State (Columbia, S.C.)
CAYCE, S.C. — Cayce residents will see officers cruising round on a new sort of auto.
Thursday, the Cayce Police Department unveiled it is model new E-bikes for officers. The department added three of E-bikes to its fleet.
“It is incredibly important, and becoming increasingly more necessary, for police to utilize every tool possible to care for our cities,” Cayce Police Chief Chris Cowan mentioned in a press release. “Unique to Cayce is our pursuit of E-Tech to policing efforts, adding solar power and electric resources. This allows us to lessen our impact on the environment, reduce costs to taxpayers and increase the speed and length of time we can deploy resources — all an integral part of our effort to continue to make Cayce a safe place to live, work and play.”
E-bikes are electrical bicycles which might be extra nimble that your typical police cruiser and require much less man-power than an everyday pedal-powered bike. The bikes had been paid for by Jim Hudson Automotive Group, a information launch mentioned.
“We are so thankful for our newest City partner, Jim Hudson Automotive Group,” Mayor Elise Partin mentioned. “Jim selected Cayce because like us, he believes in community policing and in being a good steward of the environment.”
E-bike officers will patrol everywhere in the city, Cayce spokesperson Ashley Hunter mentioned.
The bikes will permit the department to have extra group presence in neighborhoods just like the Avenues, the place dashing drivers is a persistent complain from residents, Hunter mentioned.
The Cayce Public Safety Foundation additionally purchased a new solar-powered “speed trailer.” Speed trailers are these moveable, electrical velocity limits indicators that blink if a driver is dashing.
Siteline Graphics did the decals for the bikes and trailers.
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