Gardaí get leg up for beat on the street

It’s a long way from the cop on the bike to the electronic beat on the street — or maybe it’s just a shift in gear.

Pedestrians stopped to stare on Grafton St in Dublin yesterday as two gardaí demonstrated the force’s latest crime fighting technology — Segways.

These are two-wheeled self-balancing battery-powered electric vehicles that travel at about four times the speed of the average pedestrian.