{"id":224003,"date":"2026-04-08T22:15:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T22:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/224003\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T22:15:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T22:15:07","slug":"miami-beach-police-launch-e-bike-squad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/224003\/","title":{"rendered":"Miami Beach police launch \u2018E-bike Squad\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0April 8, 2026 at 5:56 PM<\/p>\n<p>New police E-bike fleet comes to Miami Beach <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">MIAMI BEACH, Fla. \u2014 The Miami Beach Police Department is launching what it calls an \u201cE-Bike Squad\u201d in the city\u2019s Art Deco District.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police unveiled six new e-bikes that will make up the new detail. They were donated by a foundation set up by local real estate broker Andres Asion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Officials say the department\u2019s new e-bike unit was launched to enhance public safety in the art deco district.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Officers say the new additions will help them navigate areas with more pedestrians.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cWhat we\u2019re unveiling here today is not just a donation of bikes,\u201d Asion said. \u201cThese electric bikes are tools. They are going to help our police officers be more visible, more mobile, more connected to the community, especially in the Art Deco district, one of the most important and busiest areas of our city.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Officials say the E-bike Squad is a permanent addition to the department.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfe0 News From Your Neighborhood<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0April 8, 2026 at 5:56 PM New police E-bike fleet comes to Miami Beach MIAMI BEACH, Fla. \u2014&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":224004,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-224003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224003\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}