{"id":145521,"date":"2026-03-22T21:31:20","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T21:31:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/145521\/"},"modified":"2026-03-22T21:31:20","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T21:31:20","slug":"pittsburgh-police-add-new-bike-officers-ahead-of-nfl-draft-patrols-wpxi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/145521\/","title":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh police add new bike officers ahead of NFL Draft patrols \u2013 WPXI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">PITTSBURGH \u2014 The Pittsburgh Bureau of Police has added 17 new officers to its Bicycle Patrol.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">The officers completed 40 hours of training in the classroom and on the road to become certified, the bureau said in a social media post Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Part of the training included a roughly 30-mile road across the city, including skill stations and varied terrain.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">The new officers will be part of the 40-person Bicycle Patrol assigned to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/news\/local\/nfl-draft-is-approaching-pittsburgh-heres-what-we-know-about-campus-so-far\/Y4JUNRKA55DWPPABFVKL23UM2E\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/news\/local\/nfl-draft-is-approaching-pittsburgh-heres-what-we-know-about-campus-so-far\/Y4JUNRKA55DWPPABFVKL23UM2E\/\">NFL Draft in Pittsburgh<\/a> from April 23-35, the bureau says. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Download the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/mobile-apps\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FREE WPXI News app<\/a> for breaking news alerts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Follow Channel 11 News on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/wpxi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WPXI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>. | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch WPXI NOW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>TOP STORIES FROM CHANNEL 11 NEWS <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph body-copyright\">\u00a92026 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PITTSBURGH \u2014 The Pittsburgh Bureau of Police has added 17 new officers to its Bicycle Patrol. The officers&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":145522,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[31803,66378,66377,62787,66379,66376,73,7748,75,74,51138,745,66212],"class_list":["post-145521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-2026-nfl-draft","tag-bicycle-patrols","tag-bike-officer","tag-nfl-draft-pittsburgh","tag-nfl-draft-police","tag-pittbsurhg-police-bike-officers","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-bureau-of-police","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-pittsburgh-nfl-draft","tag-pittsburgh-police","tag-pittsburgh-police-officers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145521\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}