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The Hamburg Police
Motorcycle Display
Team
By Horst Sauff
The Hamburg Police Motorcycle Display Team, under the leadership
of Chief Police Officer Ruediger Spahr, consists of 35 members
from all branches of the Hamburg Police Department.
T
he Display Team
is a volunteer group
composed of men and women serving
in the Hamburg Police who have
volunteered their time outside of working hours to
the Squad’s busy schedule.
Since its founding in 1977, the Police Motorcycle
Display Team has become an indispensable
feature of police community relations efforts in
Germany, serving as a goodwill ambassador for
the police and motor sports in general.
Youthful motorcycle fans in particular
have been targeted by the Squad with the
aim of getting them interested in police
matters, traffic safety, driving skill, and
motor sports.
The motorcycles are retired BMW R50 and R60
police bikes that were built between 1956 and
1964. After 20 years of police-service, all were
declared surplus by the police department over
30 years ago, and have since then been lovingly
maintained by members of the Squad.
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POLICE WORLD
Vol 61 No. 2, 2016