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Adelaide businesses are calling for the South Australian government to hold their horses as works begin on ...

The SA police union boss says moving police horses and dogs out of the city to Gepps Cross at a cost of $90m is "one of the most cynical, self-serving actions I’ve ever seen from an SA government", accusing it of being willing to "dud everyone" to protect its Adelaide MP at the next election.

Renewal SA advised police last year that the former West End Brewery site in Thebarton was the ideal spot to relocate the police horses, new documents show, as the state government backtracks on a plan to house them near Adelaide Airport.

South Australia Police is proud to acknowledge three recipients of the Australian Police Medal announced today. Chief Superintendent Graham Goodwin

The state government has chosen Adelaide Airport as its preferred location for a new police horse barracks along with a “staging post” on vacant city land – overruling SA Police’s controversial preference for an 8ha site on the southern park lands.

SA Police has refused to release documents that would reveal other options for relocating police horses from Thebarton barracks than a controversial park lands site - despite a provisional ruling from the Ombudsman two months ago calling for the files to be disclosed.

A group of environmentalists, botanists, volunteers and butterfly buffs have banded together to protest South Australia Police’s proposed new barracks location in Mirnu Wirra Park 21 West, with experts arguing this southwest pocket of the Park Lands is both significant and “precious”.

Police believe they have found the body of missing man, Tui Costar. Tui Costar, 41, was last seen on Friday 14 January at Evanston Gardens. Today

Date Time Mounted Operations celebrates milestone, South Australia It’s been 70 years since South Australia Police Mounted Operations was officially gazetted as a section of SAPOL. When South Australia Police was founded in 1838 and included 10 Mounted Constables. The number of police horses grew to 250 at one point and then diminished with the uptake of motor vehicles. In 1951 Mounted Cadre was created to assist in preparation for the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee in 1954 – it was officially r...