High Fuel Costs Forcing More Cops To Walk The Beat

You may soon be seeing more thin police officers, or at least thinner police officers, patroling the streets of your city on foot due to the rise of fuel costs nationwide. The skyrocketing price of gas is forcing many cities to get their cops out of their squad cars and put them on bike and foot patrols more often than ever before. Some places have even set targets for cutting fuel usage. The Georgia State Police for example have been ordered to cut their driving time by 25% annually. Other police departments in the country have been telling their cops to cut back on the number of donut runs using their department issue police cars. In the long term it is believed that these modest measures will lead to significant reductions in fuel consumption. An additional by product is expected to be improved relations between the local police and their communities because it will give more cops a chance to get to know some of the members of the public they serve better by walking a beat.