Project 529 bike registry now available to police agencies across B.C.
A partnership the Vancouver Police Department formed almost 10 years ago with a Portland company to combat bike thefts — and has seen impressive results in reducing the number of stolen bikes in the city — has now gone provincewide.
“And while we were in dozens of municipalities here in B.C., this is an opportunity for all municipalities in B.C. to participate.” At the time of launching the trial in Vancouver, the city’s stolen bike rate was increasing 20 per cent a year, with 3,065 stolen in 2015. That number decreased to 1,049 stolen in 2023 — a statistic Palmer described as “impressive.”
'Something's fishy' Allard said the process to register a bike takes five minutes, and includes loading photographs of the person’s bike on the registry, along with serial number. Each registrant gets a difficult-to-remove yellow decal to place on the bike. “If you flip a bicycle over and you see no serial number, it's like buying a car without a licence plate — something's fishy,” he said.
“The police do a great job of recovering bicycles, but without a system to connect the dots, we can't get those bikes back to you,” he said.
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