The Police Service of Northern Ireland has launched Operation Close Pass, which will involve police officers riding in cycling kit to catch close-pass drivers.
The officers, who will simply take to the roads on bike rides, will be fitted with bike-mounted cameras.
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If a driver overtakes them too closely, or in any other way dangerously, they will be pulled over by motorbike police officers working with their cycling colleagues.
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Footage of the poor or dangerous driving will then be shown to the drivers so they can understand, from a cyclist's perspective, the problem with their driving.
The emphasis will be on educating drivers, but if the undercover cycling officers encounter driving that warrants prosecution such a process will begin against those drivers.
Announcing the operation in the video below, Assistant Chief Constable Alan Todd is himself dressed in his cycling kit and has his bike with him.
He said Operation Close Pass would continue for a number of weeks around Northern Ireland and that it would coincide with a campaign to ensure the public was reminded the roads were a facility that everyone had an equal right to use.
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