Overview
- Valencia’s 12-officer patrol, which rides scooters on the city’s 200 km of bike lanes, has processed about 300 violations in its first month.
- The most common offense was riding with headphones, followed by running red lights, no helmet use, speeding, and vehicles that failed technical rules, according to city figures.
- Officers also run speed checks and alcohol and drug tests, look for illegal scooters, and flag defects they find in the cycling network.
- The team uses Cecotec-built scooters with wide decks, twin motors, disc brakes, sirens, and two batteries that give about 80 km of range for a full shift.
- City leaders created the unit after crashes involving personal mobility vehicles rose 186% from 2019 to 2023, and they promote it as a model other towns could adopt.