Met charges first electric police motorbike

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Police force to trial electric motorbike from Zero Motorcycles

For years the only obvious electrical aspect of police vehicles has been the siren. But now London's boys in blue are set to embark on a new greener era of patrolling with the unveiling of the Metropolitan...

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