By David Travis Bland
The State (Columbia, S.C.)
CAYCE, S.C. — Cayce residents will see officers cruising around on a new type of vehicle.
Thursday, the Cayce Police Department unveiled it’s brand 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 said in a statement. “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 electric bicycles that are more nimble that your typical police cruiser and require less man-power than a regular pedal-powered bike. The bikes were paid for by Jim Hudson Automotive Group, a news release said.
“We are so thankful for our newest City partner, Jim Hudson Automotive Group,” Mayor Elise Partin said. “Jim selected Cayce because like us, he believes in community policing and in being a good steward of the environment.”
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E-bike officers will patrol all over the city, Cayce spokesperson Ashley Hunter said.
The bikes will allow the department to have more community presence in neighborhoods like the Avenues, where speeding drivers is a persistent complain from residents, Hunter said.
The Cayce Public Safety Foundation also bought a new solar-powered “speed trailer.” Speed trailers are those portable, electric speed limits signs that blink if a driver is speeding.
Siteline Graphics did the decals for the bikes and trailers.
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