The 1st Military Police Battalion of the Australian Defence Force is now riding BMW motorcycles, in line with many of the world’s defence and police forces.

Lieutenant-Colonel Cheryl Pearce, Commanding Officer 1st Military Police Battalion, has taken delivery of the first shipment of 37 R 1150 RT-P motorcycles.

The machines will be based in various military installations throughout Australia, and be used for general military police work, ceremonial and escort duties.

This is the first time the ADF has chosen BMW motorcycles and the R 1150 RT-Ps will replace a fleet of aging Japanese 650s.

The R 1150 RT-P will give the ADF a modern, well-equipped motorcycle that has proven itself with police and military forces worldwide. The Military Police versions are essentially identical to the BMW motorcycles specified by the civilian Police.

BMW Motorrad Australia’s Metropolitan & Corporate Sales Manager, Victor Colcott is delighted that the military has chosen BMW and he had further good news on the authority front. Another Australian Police service has just announced it is increasing the size of its fleet of BMW Police motorcycles.

Local, Police and Military Authority business has always been important to BMW.

BMW Motorrad has been operating in this field since the end of the 1920s. The first machine was an R 24 with 12 bhp, sold in 1928.

Since the transfer of production from Munich to Berlin in 1969, over 100,000 authorities’ motorcycles have been supplied in 146 countries. From the outset, the largest buyer countries have been France, Germany, Spain and Great Britain.

The RT model has a key share in this success, accounting for about 65 per cent of models offered. Other authorities motorcycles in the current program are based on the R 900 RT/R 1200 RT.

The BMW authority program has provided more than 3,500,000,000 km of dependable service to generations of police, military, emergency and fire services on every inhabited continent on earth.

For nearly seventy years, the smooth, reliable boxer-twin cylinder motorcycles from BMW have been working on the road. The sophisticated machines being delivered to the Military Police are direct descendants of those early motorcycles.

Still a Boxer twin, the modern R 1150 RT-P features myriad technical advances, such as ABS anti-lock-brakes and digital fuel injection – but they are still shaft-driven and designed to be ridden, day in and day out.

Surefooted handling, sparkling performance, long service intervals, low operating costs, high residual values, exemplary weather protection and supreme long-distance comfort for the rider are hallmarks of the modern BMW motorcycle – all features which continue to make BMW the preferred choice of Authorities world-wide.

BMW Motorrad Australia has enjoyed considerable success with the dynamic model line up of BMW R 1150 RT-P and K1200 RS-P police motorcycles being used by seven out of eight police services, ambulance and emergency breakdown services across Australia.

For further information contact:
Alexander Corne
Communications and Specialist Media Manager
BMW Group Australia
Phone: 03 9264 4150
Fax: 03 9562 2799
Mobile: 0439 568 819
Email: alexander.corne@bmw.com.au