Crime & Safety
Thames Valley Police: Bike safety event to tackle theft
Officers from the Oxford Central Neighbourhood Policing Team highlighted last week’s event on Facebook.
One officer posted: “We marked and registered 110 bikes this time with BikeRegister, the national cycle database that helps get stolen bikes back where they belong.”
The event also gave out high-vis accessories to keep cyclists safe in the city.
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Bike owners can register with the service online by providing their bike frame numbers to the national police approved database for free, or by buying a security marking kit.
The security marking kit the permanently marks a bike with a unique BikeRegister ID.
Riders can then apply a warning label telling bike thieves they use BikeRegister.
Data from Thames Valley Police shows there were 2,173 bike thefts from January 2024 to December 2025, an average of 90 per month.
Of those cases, an average of 88 per cent of thefts went unsolved with no suspect identified.