SF SAFE (Safety Awareness For Everyone), in partnership with the San Francisco Police Department has launched a new program called SAFE Bikes. This is a no cost bicycle registry program administered by San Francisco SAFE. Anyone can register their bicycle by going to www.safebikes.org and clicking on the registration icon. SAFE in collaboration with the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition, and several local businesses are undertaking a citywide educational campaign to teach people how to protect themselves against bike theft/burglary by recommending locking strategies and suggesting theft prevention tips.
The registration portion of SAFE Bikes is just beginning and can be a useful tool down the road if people register their bicycle. You will be able to identify a registered bicycle on the street by the metallic sticker specifically made for this bicycle registration program. Each person receives a sticker when they register their bicycle.
The registration information collected is NOT being stored by the SFPD. San Francisco SAFE staff members will be the only people to run queries in the registry database.