Attempts To Save The SD Mounted Patrol In Action
Written by admin on February 11, 2010
At 3 p.m. Thursday, a 10-day auction ends, and San Diego’s police horses will be sold to the highest bidders – or will they?
Russ and Sharon Evans are horse lovers who created the website savesdmountedpatrol.com.
“We have had people flooding the web site with comments, people with pledges,” Sharon said.
Assistant Police Chief Bob Kanaski says with layoffs and attrition, officers who rode horseback are needed elsewhere.
“We really need them out in our black-and-whites right now,” Kanaski said.
Although it costs $250,000 a year to maintain the horses, Kanaski says when you add up equipment, cars, trailers and officers’ salaries, “That whole unit goes and operates at about $1.2 million a year and you really want to cement that. You don’t want to rip that up again after one year. You’d have to look at it more long-term, two or three years,” he said.
That type of financial backing would cost close to $4 million.
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