Could Tipping's bid turn back clock for mounted police?

“exactly smshogun now your talking, people dont see the bigger picture,there is a lot of money to be made here, not only would our recycling go up but also i have this vision of our mares razzing round the track at colwick racecourse , bit like where they put pretend jockeys on camels backs only in this case we could have miniature pretend policemen, or just go the whole hog and have real pretend police (CPO'S) riding them.lol, wouldnt that be a spectacle ?
gosh we would be on the proper news like in america,”

“They could always sell the muck to gardeners, and now for bio gas production.”

“dont forget we are starting afresh,there is nothing to stop us buying some nice horses, i like those Lipizzaner types,perhaps the non existent budget could stretch to a fleet of those ?”

“@mof_gedling - the beed of horse the mounted section use are not suitable for dressage. They stand between 16-18 hand high and they aren't the right build to be show horses. A dressage horse are light bones and vey nimble, the same build a gymnast.”

“one proposal could be to incorporate a dressage routine ,we could reap the costs back by putting on displays all over the world,it could help with angry crowds too, you couldnt stay angry watching the horseys do the foxtrot,
"sarge they are getting angry out there,should i hose them down with the water cannon ?"
" no bring on the dancing horses."”

“The force expects to save £105,000 a year because of an early release from a vehicle hire contract.

£100k a year on vehicles for the mounted unit??? Who negotiated that contract.”

“It tells you that mounted police are an effective means of controlling large crowds who tend to converge all at once... which probably doesn't apply in the case of either rugby or cricket (where there tends to be more of a gradual drift in even after the start of play each day) round here?

It's a huge mistake to feel that a resource has no value simply because you're not utilising it 100 per cent of the time and because you can't necessarily see the instant benefit of its existence under all circumstances. Police cars stand idle some of the time... where do you stop?... do you want to cut those back drastically too?”

“It would be sad to see the mounted section go, but to be fair the horses were only used at football matches to keep tabs on the hooligans every other week. I've lived in West Bridgord for 28 years before moving to Bingham, and not once did i see the horses at any cricket match or rugby match. I think these statistics are telling us something about a particular sport, don't you??

They don't really do any quote 'proper work' unquote. They are mostly used for shows and other fates and fairs and I guess £90.000 is alot of money to pay for someting which isn't use practically that much anymore.”

“I opposed the introduction of the Police Commissioner posts and remain unconvinced. However, it's abject nonsense of the first poster to describe the mounted police as a "luxury". It was a short-sighted decision to disband them in the future.

Policing is about maintaining public order as well as physically catching criminals and the horses are an invaluable means of doing that (ask anyone who's ever been to a football match!). I am sure that most Nottinghamshire people will welcome them back with open arms.”

“The first symbol of 'Law and Order' should be Police in uniform on the street and not Mr Tipping still 'vote catching' on expensive luxuries. A second good symbol would be that of the Chief Constable governing his Officers not a 'Politician' who does not appear to be impartial by virtue of his Labour logo. No time wasting review just get on with the job in hand if it is possible.”