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University hospital adds bike patrol
Healthcare Security Weekly, August 22, 2005
In a response to busy downtown traffic, 16 security officers from Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick, NJ, traded in their patrol cars for mountain bikes, according to the Home News Tribune.
The bike patrol unit will roam the hospital's campus, which includes parking lots, decks, and buildings on five separate streets, day and night.
Ken Graulich, security operations director, says he heard hospitals out west were using bikes and he felt they would make his security team more effective with faster response times and more flexibility.
"Bikes can go places that cars cannot," Graulich told the Tribune. "They also allow us to approach a suspect without [him or her] knowing we're there. There are no lights flashing or sirens blasting. We also can apprehend a suspect on foot much quicker on a bike."
Officers had to pass a fitness test and bike course to join the unit.
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