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Do eBikes and Law Enforcement Mix?

When Monrovia Canyon Park rangers bought two ebikes from Brio Electric Bikes, there were high hopes on how it would ease the rangers' jobs. After a month, we check up on the rangers to ask how the ebikes have been treating them.

Published on Monday, September 23, 2013 | 11:13 am
 

About a month ago, rangers from Monrovia Canyon Park bought two IZIP Express bicycles from Brio Electric Bikes. The prospect of easily patrolling the hills while going green was too good to resist for the rangers. After a month, how are they faring?

Eugene Suk, a park ranger at Monrovia Canyon Park says, “I think they’re great. They are a great alternative to what we have right now. We’re using these e-bikes as an alternative mode of transportation and patrol. They have this different versatility in what we do, from our day to day whether it’s patrol or whether just getting to the different apartments that we go to or the different buildings that we go to for the park.”

Senior park ranger, Hector Inzunza, concurs, saying, “I think it’s really great to have some electrical bikes up there, and of course there’s little impact to the environment which we always consider here.”

Inzunza explains how Brio Electric Bikes was extremely helpful the whole time the rangers’ were on the lookout for ebikes. He says Brio’s “gave some recommendations regarding some bikes and we found a bike that would be compatible for our use.”

The two IZIP Express bicycles Inzunza and his staff got are the same model bikes the LAPD uses. And so far, “I can tell you that it doesn’t take much effort to really take up on this bike,” says Inzunza. “The battery lasts about half a day if we use if for four hours consistently which is not bad. We get about 20-25 miles. That equates to less money going to fuel, so I save money and once again, there’s no impact to the environment.”

The bikes are now considered as THE vehicle to use, according to Inzunza. “We’re actually out there with the bicycle in the Hillside doing patrols or working, being ‘in presence.’ And I think we’re going to try to be on a bike on a cold day rather than a vehicle. I think it can definitely work effectively by keeping more of an eye out there on a bike.”

Inzunza adds, “it’s more people-friendly. We can stop and talk to folks in a very positive manner.”

Being more people-friendly, Suk says, has a benefit from a community relations perspective. “You don’t have that intimidation factor I believe. If you get that presence, it’s easier to talk, we get a lot more friendly smiles, we get a lot more conversations because we are easier to approach,” says Suk.

So how goes it for ebikes and law enforcement?

Inzunza says, “it’s really an ideal tool to have. And, my staff loves them.”

To learn more about Brio Electric Bikes, visit http://www.brioelectricbikes.com/ or call (626) 657-2251.

Brio Electric Bikes is located at 113 E. Olive Ave., Monrovia.

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