Captain John Brandt of the University of Maryland Department of Public Safety poses with his bike outside of the Pocomoke Building near fraternity row on Wednesday, March 24, 2010. He'll be retiring on April 1 after 30 years at the university and has never taken a sick day. "I never wanted to. I had things to do here," he said. (Stacy Jones/UMD Photo)
Brandt became a bike officer in 1991 after pushing the department to consider the advantages of having officers on bicycles. He said police bikes are modified to allow riders to sit more upright and scan crowds and lack the clicking noise that usually alerts pedestrians to move for a cyclist. (Stacy Jones/UMD Photo)
Brandt brings his bike, one of the first the department purchased, into the garage to demonstrate how officers navigate in tight spaces. He said it's one of the hardest skills to teach new bike officers, who undergo 40 hours of training before being asked to navigate the Comcast Center steps on their bikes as a final exam. (Stacy Jones/UMD Photo)
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