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Tears shed, beautiful memories: Touching moment police help grant dying womans final wish 11 Mar, 2021 07:13 PM 2 minutes to read The beautiful visit had Rita full of smiles and love. Photo / Mounted Unit - NSW Police Force The beautiful visit had Rita full of smiles and love. Photo / Mounted Unit - NSW Police Force NZ Herald An elderly woman nearing the end of her life has had her final wish granted all thanks to the help of NSW police. Rita Meredith, who is in hospice care in Sydney, is too u...

Trailblazing Majors retire, continue serving Ocala community without badge Majors Robin Ford, Tara Woods entered OPD together, retire together as first women majors Updated:  Tags:  Tara Woods saw an ad for an Ocala Community Service Officer at a church in 1990. “I saw there was one position open at the Ocala Police Department. What I was most intrigued about was you got the police car, you get to wear the uniform, but at the time you weren’t a sworn police officer, but you got to work at...

The police operation for the 43 rd annual Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras Parade has concluded. A high-visibility operation was launched across the operation footprint which included Moore Park, Oxford Street, Hyde Park and public transport routes to and from the area. Due to COVID-19, the traditional Mardi Gras parade was replaced by a ticketed, COVID-safe event within the Sydney Cricket Stadium (SCG) at Moore Park today (Saturday 6 March 2021). This ensured COVID-safe protocols could be adh...

The Savannah Police Department said goodbye to a cow found wandering on Interstate-16 last month. Named LEOna by the Savannah Police Department, the cow headed off to her forever home, according to a press release from the SPD. LEOna was adopted by Skylands Animal Farm & Rescue in New Jersey after the SPD was unable to find LEOnas owner. LEOna, who is estimated to be about 1 to 1 ½ years old, was living out at SPD’s stables off of Dean Forest Road with the Mounted Unit, according to the SP...

The NSW Police Force welcomed 194 new probationary constables at the NSW Police Academy today (Friday 26 February 2021) at the first full ceremony since...

UPDATE Police Chief comments on Lafayette Police homeless sweep Homeless coalition comments on Lafayette Police homeless sweep and last updated 2021-02-11 00:00:06-05 UPDATE: Lafayette Police Chief Thomas L. Glover Sr. has posted a statement about the departments efforts regarding the homeless. Last week, we posted some pictures of the departments mounted unit doing a sweep of Lafayette homeless encampments. That post was met with a response by the local homeless coalition. Today, this state...

Meet the Mounted Posse, an Antiquated Aid for a Modern Sheriff Enter your number to get our free mobile app The Tuscaloosa County Sheriff’s Office has a secret weapon to help solve mysteries and fight crime -- horses. The Mounted Unit, also known as the Mounted Posse, is a group of 13 civilian volunteers who have trained their personal horses to aid the sheriff’s department in search and rescue missions. Atop the backs of these gentle giants, the Mounted Posse volunteers cover more ground a...

A photograph of mounted police officers patrolling Sydneys famous Bondi Beach has left locals fuming.  The picture, posted to Facebook on Thursday, shows two uniformed officers side-by-side on their horses on the beachs promenade - having left a trail of horse manure behind them.  The issue has previously sparked anger from locals with one resident even confronting then-prime minister Malcolm Turnbull as he walked along the beach in 2018 - telling him Bondi Beach was not a horse toilet.  A p...

NYPD Tow Pound Leaving Manhattans Pier 76 By End Of January, City Promises arrow A June 2019 Google view of Pier 76. Google Maps A major obstacle to the development of Pier 76 at the Hudson River Park on the west side of Manhattan will be gone by the end of January, now that the city has promised to move out the NYPD tow pound after the state threatened massive fines. “The City has already made major strides and significant financial investment in relocating Police Dep...

Police slam ‘reckless’ illegal North Coast New Year’s beach party for breaching COVID-19 rules.