SOP

Uniforms

On moto, all uniforms are acceptable other than SWAT Armor, but try to wear a helmet to preserve your own safety.

          Standard Patrol

You may begin patrolling with Moto if there are 2-3 patrol cars already out. Moto patrol should only be happening if there’s an abundance of normal patrol cars, or if there are loads of criminal bikers causing havoc. Even in that case, there should be at least 2 other patrol cars to make sure you can transport suspects.

The intended patrol bikes are the Harley and BMW, the Kawasaki/Tracer /Dirtbike for more sporty bikes, like the Bati 801, Nightblade, (which is a chopper, just a very good one) Manchez, and the Hakuchou Drag. If you’re encountering any bikes that are capable of high speed wheelies, do not drive the Harley. It can’t lift that high and you won’t be able to follow.

On Moto, it is often unsafe to hold your radio and speak, take comms if you must however. You will have to if you’re the only officer with eyes on the pursuit, which will happen often.

You should also get on your motorcycle if you’re often pursuing offroad vehicles, or a bank job, due to how criminals always go underground or swap into bikes, or drive into places that our patrol cars cannot reach.

As a moto rider, I recommend you carry a large amount of heavy armor and bandages on you, due to the fact that you will more than likely fall off your bike at least once per pursuit. This can make you bleed, without bandages you will pass out and require deeper treatment, taking you out of a pursuit. I also recommend carrying a shotgun. As a motorcyclist, you’re probably the only police bike out at a time, meaning a criminal can isolate you, and mortally wound you with ease. Your other officers can’t get to you to protect you, and you have no real cover with a bike. The very moment you are isolated from other officers and the suspects turn to you, you need to draw a high powered weapon and take aim, for your own safety.

Something to keep in mind while you’re pursuing alone as well is that it is very easy for the suspect to put their vehicle in reverse and ram you right off your bike. They deserve to be shot for it but at that point you might be too injured to do anything about it. Always keep a safe distance, and never try to go in reverse on your bike with your feet, drive forward while turning around as fast as possible, your feet are too slow.

If you find yourself falling a great height on your motorcycle, try to land on your front wheel by leaning forward, it gives you a more firm grip to not fall off the bike on impact.

                                                  Pursuits

Your role in a pursuit is to maintain relatively close but well out of the way of primary traffic. Try to remain tertiary while also driving almost on the sidewalk, or literally on the sidewalk if there are no pedestrians walking on it. By hugging a sidewalk during a pursuit, you are in a very safe spot in case someone behind you tries to overtake. You’re also more safe from oncoming traffic. You should be ready to take primary the very moment the primary and/or secondary officer takes a crash or starts to lose the suspect, you must call that you’re overtaking and keep eyes until that other officer can catch back up.

Any time you try to overtake, or you notice you’re in an officer's way, call on the radio where you’re going to avoid a horrible accident. You must remain close because a criminal could very suddenly take a dangerous jump that you may follow easier than a car can, and if the criminal drives into a skinny location that only a bike can follow.

It’s also your job to get the suspect out of their vehicle while they are boxed. Get your taser, step off the bike and electrocute them to lift them out of the car and handcuff them. You can taze from your motorcycle if it’s absolutely necessary but try to avoid it.

Your pursuit ending tactic in a bike pursuit is not to PIT them, but instead to coordinate with your fellow officers to set up semi-obvious roadblocks with their cars at long distances, or around long corners to also block. The goal with that is to force the bike to slow down, once they start to go around 0-25mph you should taze them and get ready to cuff them. If the pursuit has PIT cleared, you’re also cleared to do this. The roadblock should be set up at longer ranges in order to not force the biker to crash, but instead to redirect them into areas where they must slow down. If someone starts trying to drive their bike up incredibly unsafe areas where pedestrians may be, like the train stations, You are immediately cleared to taze them at 0-25mph if they’re doing these things. They are deeply endangering the public by driving in those areas.

                  LOCK YOUR BIKE AT ALL TIMES

It is incredibly easy for a criminal to tackle you off your bike and steal it instantly. It takes less than .3 seconds to happen, you cannot protect yourself, and your engine is on which lets them drive off before you can even get up. Lock your bike even while you’re sitting on it. This will require you to disable your PD remote’s binding off of L though, because pressing L in a police vehicle causes you to stop your plate reader from being able to lock things. Or just change the button on your keyfob that locks your car.