BMW of North America, LLC Welcomes Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department Motorcycle Officers Participating In National Police Week

Woodcliff Lake, NJ – May 7, 2010…Twelve motorcycle officers from the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department will ride to BMW of North America, LLC headquarters at noon on Sunday, May 9 to kick off their participation in National Police Week, held in Washington, D.C., May 9-15.  The officers will tour BMW’s motorcycle training facility, where law enforcement officers become better prepared to ride specially equipped BMW police motorcycles.  On Monday, they will escort 100 bicyclists riding from Somerset, NJ to the nation’s capital in the Police Unity Tour. 

The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department has 112 BMW R 1200 RT-P motorcycles in its fleet, the largest of any sheriff’s department in the country. Internationally, BMW is the largest seller of motorcycles for authority use. More than 80,000 BMW motorcycles are currently in official use in over 150 countries on five continents. In the United States, 430 law enforcement agencies have BMW authority motorcycles in their fleets of patrol vehicles.  For more information about BMW Authority Motorcycles, visit www.bmwmc.net or contact Frank Stevens, Authority Program Manager at 201-307-3927.

Each May, during National Police Week, the nation pauses to recognize the service and sacrifice of U.S. law enforcement officers.  Last year, 116 law enforcement officers were killed in the line of duty.  For a complete schedule of National Police Week events in Washington, D.C., visit www.LawMemorial.org/policeweek.

 BMW Group In America

 BMW of North America, LLC has been present in the United States since 1975.  Rolls-Royce Motor Cars NA, LLC began distributing vehicles in 2003.  The BMW Group in the United States has grown to include marketing, sales, and financial service organizations for the BMW brand of motor vehicles, including motorcycles, the MINI brand, and the Rolls-Royce brand of Motor Cars; DesignworksUSA, a strategic design consultancy in California; a technology office in Silicon Valley and various other operations throughout the country.  BMW Manufacturing Co., LLC in South Carolina is part of BMW Group’s global manufacturing network and is the exclusive manufacturing plant for all X5 Sports Activity Vehicles and X6 Sports Activity Coupes.  The BMW Group sales organization is represented in the U.S. through networks of 338 BMW passenger car centers, 336 BMW Sports Activity Vehicle centers, 143 BMW motorcycle retailers, 94 MINI passenger car dealers, and 31 Rolls-Royce Motor Car dealers.  BMW (US) Holding Corp., the BMW Group’s sales headquarters for North America, is located in Woodcliff Lake, New Jersey.

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