A Police operation in Norwich involving bike marking has reduced the number of bicycles being stolen in the city by 80 per cent in just two weeks.

As the festive season gets under way, the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) Safer Transport Command and Transport for London (TfL) are reminding cyclists to lock their bikes securely and follow ‘the three R’s’ - Record, Register and Report.

A new bike marking scheme set up in Bury, Greater Manchester, hopes to slow down the growing number of thefts in the area.

Police in Norwich are launching a new BikeRegister bike marking initiative today in a bid to combat thefts.

Cyclists in Hereford are being urged to take advantage of a new police scheme to beat bike theft by getting their bikes marked.

Officers from Brent’s Safer Transport Team (STT) have launched a scheme to identify unwanted bicycles handed into the police that could be donated to local primary schools and children they nominate.

More than 70 arrests were made last week as a result of increased activity as part of Project Cycle Ops - a partnership initiative between Transport for London the police and cycling groups to tackle cycle theft from public places across the Capital.

A crackdown on bike crime has seen police in Peterborough patrolling hotspots to check for thieves and officers marking bikes with BikeRegister after a 50 per cent rise in thefts in the city centre.

Officers from Hounslow Safer Transport Team (STT) have been working hard to deter bike thieves on their patch and have successfully reduced bike theft in Chiswick (a particular hotspot area) by 44%.

Officers from Hackney’s Safer Transport Team (STT) reduced bike theft in the area by 45% after a concerted drive to lower the crime in the first week of October 2012.

Cyclists are being urged to take adequate steps to check the legitimacy of a bike they are buying in order to dramatically reduce the market for stolen bikes.

Officers from MPS Hackney recently gave residents and visitors to the East London Borough the opportunity to have their bikes security marked using BikeRegister.

A RARE orange Brompton cycle which had been stolen from the Brompton Bicycle Factory in Brentford, Middlesex was recently recovered from the home of a known bike thief.

More than 100 cyclists in the London Borough of Sutton have had their bicycles security marked and registered on BikeRegister during a two-week initiative run by Sutton’s Safer Transport Team.

Officers from Kew Safer Neighbourhood Team (SNT) recently found a stolen bike at a local retail park and were able to successfully reunite it with its owner using BikeRegister.

A Police initiative to tackle overcrowding on a school bus route by getting pupils to cycle instead has scooped a top prize.

Cyclists across London have even more opportunity to get their bikes security marked and registered as officers from the Transport for London (TfL) - funded Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) Safer Transport Command (STC) increase their bike marking events this month.

The owner of a stolen Brompton bike, which was security marked and registered on Bikeregister.com by the Cycle Task Force, has been reunited with it this week.

Officers from Northampton North Safer Community Team recently carried out bike security marking using BikeRegister at Northampton College.

A major Bike Watch scheme is clamping down on bike theft when it launches today across the whole of North Wales.

Cheshire police have left their mark at a successful event in Holmes Chapel village centre.

Two Brompton owners who had their bikes stolen have been reunited with them, following an investigation by the Metropolitan Police Service Safer Transport Command’s Cycle Task Force, funded by Transport for London.

With cycle-to-work schemes becoming ever more popular and with warmer weather tempting out more fair-weather cyclists, police in Taunton are reminding people to remember to lock their bikes up, not only when out and about, but when they are stored at home.

Cyclists in Stockport were urged to saddle up and beat the bike thieves by taking advantage of a new bike security scheme using BikeRegister.

Police in west Cumbria are recommending the use of BikeRegister after bike theft increased significantly in the area.

Officers in Wales have marked and registered new police bikes with BikeRegister to protect them from being stolen while they are on duty.

Cyclists in Widnes have been offered the chance to have their bikes security marked and the details logged on the BikeRegister database.

Officers from Northamptonshire Police recently set up a bike surgery and crime prevention initiative at a local specialist sports college.

Over 750 bikes were security marked and registered on BikeRegister by officers from the Transport for London (TfL) funded Metropolitan Police Service Safer Transport Command (STC) last month, in the lead up to Christmas.

The City of London has seen a spate of cycle thefts in recent weeks and, in a bid to reduce bicycle thefts and help owners to protect their bikes, the City of London Police will be holding a free bicycle marking event using BikeRegister on Wednesday, 18 January at Finsbury Avenue, Broadgate Estate.

A woman has been reunited with her bicycle less than 40 hours after it was stolen from a railway station thanks to a BikeRegister initiative launched by Sutton Police.