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INTERCON SECURITY Limited has devised a new weapon in the war against theft from vehicles in corn- mercial parking lots.

Security officers employed by the company have been given mountain bikes fo use on patrols of parking facilities belonging to Marathon, Buildings Group, at Vancouver’s busy waterfront.

Replacing surveiliance by of- ficers in cars and on foot, the bicycle patrols sre conducted around the clock at Marathon's two underground garages and one surface lot which serve some 2,500 vehicles daily.

After a four-month trial period, the bicycle patrols have proven ‘exceptionally effective’ in reduc- ing theft from vehicles and vehicle break-ins, according to Marty

icycle patrols thwart thieves

Leiter, manager of Intercon in Vancouver.

“The experiment was a success from day one,” sale Leiter.

Marathon is credited with first introducing bievele patrob, which Intercon now plans fo use in its Toronto and Chicago locations.

“We've gone from two to three

inzidents in our parking fa- cilities to zero,” said Dan Fisk, manager of life safety and security with Marathon,

Fisk introduced bicycle patrols to Calgary recently in the city's downtown parkine facility at Palliser Square.

“Ma:athon parking facilities ou the Vancouver waterfront have high use by tourists out-of-state and out-of-province, whose vebi- cles are most likely to be targeted by thieves,’ Fisk observed. “However, our problem was

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inimal compared to the ongoing problem of theft fram vehicles in greater Vancouver.”

According to police, ‘tough times are the primary reasou for the escalation in theft from auios recorded over the past two years in the Lower Mainland.

For the first nine months of 1992, 477 vehicles were stolen and

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Fisk said the promary advantage of bievele patrols is their stealth,

Random patterns and sequene- ing of patrols, which can range from 60 seccnds to 40) minutes apart, also make it difficult, for thieves te opesate in patrolled fa- cilities.

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The Intercon bicycle patrol of- ficers wear uniforns similar to viese Of the RCMP's bicycle patrol but in Intercon Security's shade of royal blue, plus bicycle helmets bearing the company crest.

Leiter added that the patrols also serve as a public relations Presence,

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