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Police horses need money

By Adam Beam | Published: December 10, 2009
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 [...]
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Police Chief news conference

By Adam Beam | Published: October 29, 2009
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 [...]
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Columbia Police force at 100 percent staffing, chief says

By adam beam | Published: October 9, 2009
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 [...]
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Police horses still have a job — for now

By adam beam | Published: August 20, 2009
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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Columbia cops can now carry Tasers

By adam beam | Published: August 12, 2009
Columbia City Council members approved the police department’s use of force policy today — which means Columbia cops are now authorized to carry Tasers. The vote was unamious, but not without some heated discussion. Police Chief Tandy Carter started out his presentation with some statistics over the last four years: 33,500 — number of CPD arrests since 2005 277 [...]
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