Five officers have been certified for the bike patrol.
Plans call for at least one officer to be aboard the two-wheelers on each of three daily shifts.
More than one bicycle patrolman will be assigned for special days such as home football games. The department has two bicycles equipped with flashing safety lights and police saddles and hopes to add two more bikes. The program in being implemented by William Mercier, WSU public safety director, who came from the State University of New York at Cobleskill where a bicycle patrol was popular. The purpose is to provide patrols to several areas of campus not accessible by regular motor patrol. Officers also will be more visible and instill a better feeling of safety.