Re: News & Discussion: Squares and Parklands
Posted: Mon Jun 12, 2023 12:17 pm
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Secretly, it was filled with defects. A friend who visited it for university back in 2013 was tasked with finding this out. He succeeded.Patrick_27 wrote:Saw that today’s state budget has allocated $23m towards upgrades to the Marion State Swimming centre, it’s a relatively new building?!
That would require admitting the Marion complex was an ill thought out poorly located folly by a previous Labor government.
I’m trying to understand why SAPOL have such strict requirements for the proximity to the CBD of their Mounted Police Unit, when (from my understanding) no other state has their equivalent unit(s) so close to the CBD nor do they have a staging paddock within the CBD. Seems that SAPOL are being precious about the whole thing.gnrc_louis wrote: ↑Mon Aug 07, 2023 12:42 pmPart 27 is one of the most “natural” of all the parklands - about as bad a choice as Park 21 in that regard: https://indaily.com.au/news/2023/08/07/ ... elocation/
To be fair though, do they deploy the mounted unit anywhere on a significant basis outside of the CBD?Patrick_27 wrote: ↑Mon Aug 07, 2023 7:16 pmI’m trying to understand why SAPOL have such strict requirements for the proximity to the CBD of their Mounted Police Unit, when (from my understanding) no other state has their equivalent unit(s) so close to the CBD nor do they have a staging paddock within the CBD. Seems that SAPOL are being precious about the whole thing.gnrc_louis wrote: ↑Mon Aug 07, 2023 12:42 pmPart 27 is one of the most “natural” of all the parklands - about as bad a choice as Park 21 in that regard: https://indaily.com.au/news/2023/08/07/ ... elocation/
Mounted police are used mainly in situations where crowd calming /control is required...usually tight urban conditions (in Adelaides case the CBD) where they can be deployed rapidly and easily even if just for a general Saturday night shift. The reason I suppose that the other states do not operate similar units in close proximity to their CBD's may be that they do not have the luxury of vast, largely unused sections of parkland in close proximity.Patrick_27 wrote: ↑Mon Aug 07, 2023 7:16 pmI’m trying to understand why SAPOL have such strict requirements for the proximity to the CBD of their Mounted Police Unit, when (from my understanding) no other state has their equivalent unit(s) so close to the CBD nor do they have a staging paddock within the CBD. Seems that SAPOL are being precious about the whole thing.gnrc_louis wrote: ↑Mon Aug 07, 2023 12:42 pmPart 27 is one of the most “natural” of all the parklands - about as bad a choice as Park 21 in that regard: https://indaily.com.au/news/2023/08/07/ ... elocation/