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HIT THE OPEN ROAD WITH
THE BLUE
KNIGHTS
If you enjoy motorcycling, exploring new places, The club’s headquarters are in Bangor, Maine
socialising with like-minded people, raising money and the American origins of the club continue to
for worthy causes and you have or had a statutory be borne out by the blue waistcoat that members
power of arrest, the Blue Knights Law Enforcement can wear. The international club is organised into
Motorcycle Club (LEMC) might be the club for you. 11 conferences worldwide; our conference is the
If that all sounds interesting, why not read on to UK&I. The international structure provides the
find out how the Blue Knights LEMC got started overarching network that joins us all together.
and what it is doing today. Once a year an International Convention is held,
In 1974 a small group of motorcycle cops in next year the Convention will be held in Maine
Bangor (USA) formed a local police bike club. One USA as it’s the 50th Anniversary of the club.
of their aims was to show that unlike the criminal
motorcycle clubs, which were giving motorcyclists From strength to strength
a bad name, 99% of motorcyclists are law abiding By 1990 the Club had grown to over 8,000
‘good guys’. They called themselves the Blue members in the States and the Blue Knights
Knights; little did they know that by 2010 the Blue fraternal spirit found its way across the ocean to Picture © Michael Kaercher / Shutterstock
Knights LEMC would have over 21,000 members the UK and Europe. Since that time, the UK and
across the world and over 600 branches – or Ireland Conference has grown from strength to
Chapters, as they are referred to in the States – in strength and there are now 30 Chapters across
31 different Countries. England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and the
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