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Adam Beam covers the City of Columbia for The State newspaper. Here, he blogs about local government. Reach him at (803) 386-7038 or abeam@thestate.com
Tag Archives: Columbia Police Department
Police horses need money
Earlier this year, I wrote about how Columbia’s police department budget did not include money for police dogs and police horses. Since then, the money for the dogs has been restored.
Not so for the horses.
Police Chief Tandy Carter’s solution is to raise money to save the horses’ jobs. He has to do it by March [...]
Police Chief news conference
Columbia Police Chief Tandy Carter held a brief news conference today about a police officer about an incident involving assistant state attorney general Roland Corning. Corning was pulled over on suspicion of illegal activity after officer Mike Wines saw him pull into a secluded area of Elmwood Cemetery with an 18-year-old employee of Platinum Plus [...]
Columbia Police force at 100 percent staffing, chief says
Columbia officials have budgeted for 359 police officers. But once the city hires 18 officers paid for by a federal grant, the city will have 375 officers on the streets — the first time in 10 years the department will have been at 100 percent capacity.
Police Chief Tandy Carter called it a “major accomplishment” in [...]
Police horses still have a job — for now
The Columbia Police Department has four police horses. But they only have two officers who can ride them.
The department spends $42,000 a year on the horses — or about how much it cost to pay for one police officer. With a manpower shortage at the police department, some council members feel the $42,000 for horses [...]
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