Bike Team

At special events, the Sheriff’s Office Community Bike Team provides patrol services and bike safety demonstrations around Calaveras County. The team educates the public, enforces laws, provides a security presence, ensures traffic safety, and assists residents and visitors. Bike Team Deputies handle the same police functions as regular patrol deputies but on bikes. This non-traditional form of patrol gives deputies access to places where criminals do not expect a law enforcement presence. Deputies have captured many criminals using bikes as an undetected response to crimes in progress during special events. 

These specially trained deputies have proven to be highly mobile and easily approachable and have helped to build bridges between the Sheriff’s Office and the community. Each team member is fully equipped with a bicycle, riding equipment, and a special uniform with reflective Sheriff markings. Bike Team members are proficient in riding up and down hills and stairs, navigating off-road terrain, and riding in bad weather. They perform an important yet seemingly invisible mission.