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A Boston Police Department motorcycle on St Patrick's Day In 2008 Baden-Württemberg Police officers on police motorcycles. A police motorcycle is a motorcycle used by police and law enforcement. They may be custom designed to meet the requirements unique of a particular use. Units that use motorcycles are often called motorcycle units or motor ...
The new Kawasaki police motorcycle directly competes with patrol motorcycles based on the BMW R1200RT, Harley-Davidson models, and Honda ST1300. Operators include the California Highway Patrol , Los Angeles Police Department , and other major agencies, primarily throughout the western United States.
The following is a list of motorcycle manufacturers worldwide, sorted by extant/extinct status and by country. These are producers whose motorcycles are available to the public, including both street legal as well as racetrack-only or off-road-only motorcycles .
First Norton Twin Motorcycle, designed by Bert Hopwood Model 77: 497cc 1950–1952 A rigid framed version of the Model 7, supplied only to the Australian market. Model 77: 596cc 1957–1958 Built mainly for sidecar use Dominator 88: 497cc 1952–1966 Same engine as a model 7 but in a featherbed frame Dominator 99: 596cc 1956–1962 Nomad: 497cc ...
The Norton Interpol was a police motorcycle produced by the British manufacturer Norton between 1969 and 1976. The Interpol was based on the company's Commando model. The 'Interpol' name was retained for Norton's later Norton Interpol 2 rotary engined police motorcycle.
Trooper safety was among the reasons cited by First Lt. Mike Shaw when the police motorcycles were removed from the road. Two MSP troopers on motorcycles have died in the line of duty since 2015.
BSA motorcycles were made by the Birmingham Small Arms Company Limited (BSA), which was a major British industrial combine, a group of businesses manufacturing military and sporting firearms; bicycles; motorcycles; cars; buses and bodies; steel; iron castings; hand, power, and machine tools; coal cleaning and handling plants; sintered metals; and hard chrome process.
Police in the United Kingdom use a wide range of operational vehicles, including compact cars, powerful estates and armoured police carriers. The main uses are patrol, response, tactical pursuit, and public order policing. Other vehicles used by British police include motorcycles, aircraft, and boats.