At 240 km/h on a circuit

At 240 km/h on a circuit Police officers will be able to reach 35 km/h if they have to intercept thieves in the coming years BRUSSELS ∇ Rollerblading is increasingly practiced by the entire population as soon as the sunny season approaches. Some specialists reach truly impressive speeds, as explained by John Jeanquart, one of the initiators of the project: "The speed record on rollers is 240 km/h. It was achieved on a circuit by a person being pulled by a car." In the context of initial outings and passive security, police officers on rollers will be able to cruise at 20 km/h without any problem. "Officers who wish to and who have perfect mastery of their skates could certainly reach 35 km/h. They obviously need to perfect their training and the space of the pursuit or exercise must be suitable for this speed. In daily practice, it will more often be 20 km/h or less." No other police forces interested for now The success of the Brussels police on skates may perhaps give ideas to other police forces so that they too can indulge in the joys of rollerblading. "For the moment, the Brussels police is the only concrete project we have. We are reaching the end of this implementation and we are open to all other forms of collaboration. We had already tried an action with Anvers, but it was abandoned. In September, we may develop another project with Gand." Trendy police forces across the country! The Brussels police is not the only one moving differently BRUSSELS ∇ While the Brussels police has taken possession of rollers, it has only joined in this sense the Paris police and the London police, where a special intervention unit crisscrosses the major parks of the capital. The agents on wheels respond to calls like a conventional patrol. Equipped with skates or mountain bikes, more and more police officers operate perched on wheels. Obviously, their interventions benefit from being practiced on flat ground. On the Belgian coast, for example. (REUTERS) This unit, of four members, comes to support horse patrols by patrolling Hyde Park and Kensington Park in search of troublemakers. Outside of Brussels, the kingdom's police forces have focused more on mountain biking as a means of locomotion. In the North as in the South, police officers are rolling In Dinant, the police have equipped themselves with mountain bikes to better utilize the steep terrain of the city during their interventions. The Ecaussinnes police also has two mountain bikes to reinforce its surveillance and security actions. They have been seen at work in Anderlecht, Schaerbeek, Verviers, Gand, Anvers, Hal or Asse... In view of all these positive experiences, the Minister of the Interior and the Minister of Mobility and Transport continue to promote the creation of bicycle brigades in as many Belgian municipalities as possible. In Tubize, the inhabitants of western Walloon Brabant also see police officers on bicycles circulating in their region. The West police zone has, in fact, just set up a team of eight agents on mountain bikes. On the coast too, the police of Knokke and other towns near the sands are on two wheels. In Charleroi, the project has also been closely studied by the local authorities. Finally, in Namur, the federal police has equipped several of its men so that they can go hunting for thieves in the steepest corners of the city and perhaps even up to the top of the Citadel... When will there be rollers in all these municipalities? V. Li.