With the warm summer weather getting people on their bicycles more, the Town of Drayton Valley is once again encouraging people to register their bikes with the Bike Index Program.
The Town shares that the Bike Index Program is a non-profit, online bike registry. It helps to prove ownership, alert the community to stolen bikes, and helps find stolen bikes.
The program is free, and you can sign up at www.bikeindex.org. If your bike is stolen, report it as such on the Bike Index. This alerts the Bike Index community to keep an eye out for it. When someone in the community then recovers your bike, they can identify it through the registry and get it back to you.
It was at Drayton Valley town council’s May 4 meeting when Mayor Nancy Dodds suggested bringing back the Bike Index for 2022. Drayton Valley RCMP Staff Sergeant Erin Matthews was in attendance, and called the Bike Index a useful tool for RCMP.
“It makes it much easier for us. When we find something suspicious like a bike, we have someone we can link it to, rather than just having it sit in our outside compound,” said Matthews.
Matthews added that, like all stolen property, stolen bicycles should be reported to the RCMP. That way, the RCMP knows to look for it.
To find more information on the Bike Index Program, you can visit www.draytonvalley.ca/bike-index.
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