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The Gallatin County Sheriff's Office has started a bike patrol program to assist with public relations, community involvement, and crime prevention and patrol. We ride in subdivisions, business areas, at special events in and out of the county's municipalities, and at Gallatin Field Airport.
We have assisted with Bozeman's Sweet Pea Festival, the Three Forks Rodeo events, Manhattan's Potato Festival, as well as the many events such as concerts and special events in the county.
The bike officer's goals are to be accessible to the community and create opportunities for the general public to have positive interactions with law enforcement. Another one of our primary goals is to detect and deter crime as it happens. The ability to cover areas unaccessible by vehicle and larger than can be covered on foot work together with the use of stealth, and make the bike patrol an excellent addition to our other patrol units.
We carry our bikes on or cars and are available for calls in any area of the county, but have the added ability to get out and patrol areas of the county in this more unconventional, but very effective way.
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