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2nd Annual Shomrim Safety Fair – Huge Success

CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] – Throngs of children along with their parents turned out for Crown Heights Shomrim’s 2nd Annual Bike Registration and Safety fair, which included bike registration, FDNY’s Fire Saftey Team, Office of Emergency Management’s ‘Ready NYC’ program and a tour of FDNY’s Rescue 2 Fire Truck.

Many more pictures in the Extended Article!

The Bike Registration program is aimed at discouraging bike thefts as well as identifying bikes once they are recovered. The summer is upon us and we know that the children are out on their bikes and the potential theft rates do go up.

Shomrim took it upon themselves to get as many bikes as possible registered, and the turnout was extremely strong, with 98 bikes and scooters registered not only by children, but by adults as well. A special thanks to the NYPD’s Community Policing Units Officers Charlie Ryan and Rich Silberstein who gave their Friday afternoon for the task.

The program included lots of free prizes and raffles for children and adults.

Over 600 kids attended and were met by Shomrim Members, Police Officers, Fire Fighters and City Personal all of whom volunteered from their time to explain the benefits of registering their bikes along with safety tips for the summer among many other things to the kids.

Among the attractions was a Police car that kids were able to sit in and play around with the lights and sirens along with Shomrim’s two and three wheeled scooters, a tour of OEM’s massive technology laden Command post as well as the Shomrim Mobile Command Post, all of which added to a great and fun filled event.

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