In response to the obligation to make efforts to wear helmets for all people who ride bicycles from April next year, the Metropolitan Police Department will newly introduce helmets that can be worn by police officers who ride bicycles.
We want to encourage residents and others to wear helmets by police officers active in the area.
With bicycle-related accidents occurring one after another, in order to protect the safety of users, from April next year, everyone who rides a bicycle will be obligated to wear a helmet regardless of age.
In response to this, the Metropolitan Police Department has decided to introduce a new helmet worn by police officers at police boxes in areas where bicycles are used.
14,800 helmets will be prepared and will be worn from April next year.
According to the Metropolitan Police Department, in the five years until last year, 136 people who were riding bicycles died in traffic accidents in Tokyo, 132 of them were not wearing helmets, and more than 70% of them had a strong impact on the head. It means that he died because he received
The Metropolitan Police Department wants to encourage residents to wear helmets by having local police officers wear helmets when riding bicycles.