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The state Ombudsman has ordered SA Police to hand over documents revealing the options for relocating the police horses from Thebarton barracks, following a protracted freedom of information battle to overturn the agency’s bid to keep the files secret.

Premier Peter Malinauskas says the state government is considering “about four options” to relocate the police horses barracks from Thebarton, with a final decision to be made within two weeks amid ongoing protest at SA Police's preferred 8ha site in 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.

Premier Peter Malinauskas says the state government has not yet decided if a new police horse barracks will be built on park lands near Greenhill Rd  – more than two months after SA Police nominated the controversial spot as its preferred location to relocate for a new Women's and Children's Hospital.

The Australian Institute of Architects’ National President Shannon Battisson and SA Chapter President Chris Morely have written to Federal Environment and Water Minister Tanya Plibersek regarding the protection of the Adelaide Park Lands.

Protesters opposed to a proposed relocation of SA Police's Mounted Operations Unit take their concerns directly to Peter Malinauskas, heckling him as he arrived at a public function.

A rally will be held tomorrow to protest an eight hectare plot of city park land being used as a new home for mounted police.

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”.

Charlene Warrior, 21, has been missing since she travelled to Bute on Adelaides Yorke Peninsula to pick up her young daughter from her ex-boyfriends house more than two weeks ago.

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...