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.


Acomb and Holgate SNT
For more dates, please see the Acomb and Holgate SNT calender


Clifton SNT
For more dates, please see the Clifton SNT calender


Guildhall SNT
For more dates, please see the Guildhall SNT calender


Clifton Without, Haxby, Wigginton, Stockton on Forest, Strensall, Earswick, Skelton, and Rawcliffe Team SNT
For more dates, please see this SNT's calender


Heworth, Huntington and New Earswick SNT
For more dates, please see this SNT's calender


Hull Road and Rural East SNT
For more dates, please see the Hull Road and Rural East SNT calender

Micklegate SNT
For more dates, please see the Micklegate SNT calender


South East and Rural West SNT
For more dates, please see the South East and Rural West SNT calender


Westfield, Woodthorpe and Dringhouses
For more dates, please see the Westfield, Woodthorpe and Dringhouses SNT calender

2nd July                           Moor Lane Youth Centre, 1pm - 10pm
9th July                          Cross Keys, 9am - 4pm
16th August                    Moorcroft Road, 8am - 5pm
17th August                    Cross Keys, 9am - 4pm
19th August                    Cross Keys, 9am - 4pm
5th September                Cross Keys, 9am - 4pm
24th September              Wains Grove, 1pm - 10pm
5th October                     Cross Keys, 9am - 4pm
11th October                   Acomb Wood, 8am - 5pm
24th November                York College, 7am - 3pm
16th December                Tesco at Askham Bar, 7am - 4pm

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