Northern Illinois University
Department of Police and Public Safety

Any community member with a bicycle is encouraged to register their bike with NIU's Department of Public Safety. It's easy! Simply use the DeKalb Police Department's online form. You will be sent an identifying sticker to adhere to your bicycle. That's it!

All of the information collected is compiled in a database. Registering your bicycle establishes a way the NIU Police can identify your bicycle if it is ever lost or stolen. The registration gives us a way to reunite the bikes we find on campus with their rightful owners.

At the end of each academic year, we collect the bicycles that people abandon within the borders of NIU DeKalb in an ongoing effort to keep our campus looking its best. Bicycles that are not registered are collected and held for a semester.