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Operation Spoke

 Operation Spoke is a partnership led operation aiming to property mark a large proportion of bikes in the City of York. With the success of other property marking schemes at reducing the overall levels of aquisitive crime, it has been decided to expand this concept to cycles.

The benefits of marking your bike are that it can be easily identified by officers should it ever be stolen or go missing. Easy identification means that cycles can be quickly re united with their rightful owners and thieves can be quickly arrested and brought to justice.

·  Registration
·  Protection
·  Recovery
·  Prosecution

Your bike will be given a small unique marking that will be linked to your details and your cycle details within the Operation Spoke database. Alongside this every cycle registered as part of Operation Spoke will also be registered with IMMOBILISE, a national property register. This means that should your cycle leave the York area it can be quickly identified by officers from other police forces. It will also give you the opportunity to register other valuable items such as computers, mobile phones etc using the free IMMOBILISE service.

The marking of your cycle will take less than a minute and you will not need to do anything else. Your details will not be used for any other purpose other than the prevention and detection of crime.

Throughout York a number of registration events are being organised by your Safer Neighbourhood teams. Simply bring your cycle to one of the events listed below and it will be registered and recorded. The process is completely free.


York City SNT (including Guildhall and north section of Micklegate)
For more dates, please see the the York City SNT calender

19^th November 1000hrs – 1100hrs
1^st December 1700hrs – 1800hrs
10^th December 1000hrs – 1100hrs
19^th December 1700hrs – 1800hrs
5^th January 1630hrs – 1730hrs
12^th January 0900hrs – 1000hrs
21^st January 0930hrs – 1030hrs
30^th January 1200hrs – 1300hrs

York East SNT (including Fishergate, Heworth, Hull Road, The Groves, Heslington and Clifton)
For more dates, please see the York East SNT calender


York West SNT (including Dringhouses and Woodthorpe, Holgate, Westfield, a section of Micklegate and Acomb)
For more dates, please see the York West SNT calender


York Rural SNT (including Derwent, Fulford, Haxby and Wigginton, Heworth Without, Huntington and New Earswick, Osbaldwick, Rural West, Skelton and Rawcliffe, Strensall, Wheldrake and Bishopthorpe)
For more dates, please see the York Rural SNT calender

22nd Nov  - Haxby Memorial Hall (6pm-7pm)
6th Dec  - Haxby Memorial Hall (6pm-7pm)



Should you be unable to bring your bike to one of the above events please contact your local safer neighbourhood team who can arrange for your bike to be registered. Local safer neighbourhood team details can be found at www.northyorkshire.police.uk

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