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ATTENTION:
Berlin has now a "Fahrradstaffel" = i.e. organized cops on bikes, for the first time.
All has started yesterday, 16th July 2014.
Link: http://www.morgenpost.de/berlin/article130240115/Fahrradstaffel-im-Einsatz-gegen-Rad-Rowdys.html
Facts: 15 male and 5 female cops
Bikes: crappy Hartje Nanago 11-speed trekking bikes, each weighs 17.6kg (ha-ha)
Area: Mitte and partly Tiergarten (Regierungsviertel)
Time: 7:00-20:00, one shift from 7-14, other one from 13-20, apparently just two cops together every day
Obviously these are horrible news, as they will (unlike I remember in the UK) also control if you have two brakes, a bell, wheel and pedal reflectors, lights and all that shit.
What a stupid measure to make people stay away from using bicycles - so wrong and idiotic. It all goes SO in the wrong direction.