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Police to be given a 93 page manual on how to ride a bike
Police officers are to be given a two volume guide, which runs into 93 pages, on how to ride a bicycle.

The official Police Cycle Training Doctrine, which cost thousands of pounds to produce, gives full instructions on how to balance, stop and get off a bike safely.

Officers are also given a step-by-step guide on how to brake and avoid obstacles like kerbs and rocks, and are also warned not to tackle criminals while "still engaged with the cycle".

Volume two of the booklet tackles manoeuvres such as deployment into a junction" , or how to turn left and right into a corner, complete with a handy diagram.

The "mandatory" national guide, drawn up by the Association of Chief Police Officers, has been heavily ridiculed.

TaxPayers' Alliance campaign director Mark Wallace told The Sun: "This is an absurd waste of police time and thousands of pounds of taxpayers' money.

"Police officers are perfectly capable of riding a bike. It's no wonder we haven't enough on the beat if they are having to spend time and energy wading through this nonsense."

A Home Office source added: "Most of the red tape the police complain about is actually created by the cops themselves. This is a particularly bad example."

The guide has been drafted, but it has not yet been published and distributed among officers.

An ACPO spokeswoman said: "This guidance may have been drawn up by ACPO but we haven't fully approved it yet."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/6548475/Police-to-be-given-a-93-page-manual-on-how-to-ride-a-bike.html