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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 renamed Mounted Operations Unit in September 1998. The then Commissioner also introduced a policy for...