The officers on bike patrol take a 40-hour course to prepare them for their duty.

Conditions have improved remarkably since the bike patrol began.

These are the first bike patrols in the city to use the auxiliary officers, the Police Department said.

A few other precincts in the city have recently begun bike patrols.

Some of these include creating mini-stations, adding bike patrols and establishing civilian police academies.

Parents and social workers here attribute the trend to the bike patrol.

"We've wanted this for a very long time," John Kaehny, the group's executive director, said of the bike patrol.

Mountain bikess are also issued to select officers assigned to bike patrol.

"After that, we arranged for training sessions by members of the bike patrol at the Norwalk police department."

One of the most celebrated bike patrols is in Seattle.