Atsugi Security Reinforces Navy Bike Patrol Program

Story Number: NNS090818-09
Release Date: 8/18/2009 5:09:00 PM

By Chief Mass Communication Specialist Allison Pittam, Naval Air Facility Atsugi, Japan

ATSUGI, Japan (NNS) -- Naval Air Facility (NAF) Atsugi Physical Security Police enhanced the Navy Bike Patrol Program this year with a new training program that added 21 additional personnel and a night patrol unit.

While NAF Atsugi has had a bike patrol program since 2002, it has not had a certified instructor to train additional personnel. As of 2008, only five Navy bike patrol personnel remained in the department to conduct bike patrol. A change to the program and its capabilities began to take shape last year.

"When I was transferred to Atsugi, the bike patrol program was very undermanned. I worked with security to implement a training program to increase the number of available bike patrol personnel," said Master-at-Arms 1st Class Jeremy Ferguson, who has been a certified bike patrol instructor since 2006.

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