Horse-mounted patrol unit stays alive through fundraising, donation
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To learn more about the Seattle Police Mounted Patrol and to donate, go to www.seattlepolicefoundation.org , or call Renée Hopkins, CEO and president of the Seattle Police Foundation, at 206-684-0373.
There will be a mounted-patrol fundraiser hosted by the Seattle Police Foundation from 3:30 to 6:30 p.m. July 10 at the KGF Equestrian Center, 5800 125th Lane N.E., in Kirkland.
In the past two years, mounted police units from Boston to San Diego have gone the way of the Pony Express, the victims of tight budgets and shifting law-enforcement priorities.
But in Seattle, where municipal belt-tightening has become a fact of life, the Police Department's 100-year-old mounted patrol unit has staved off elimination through an intensive fundraising campaign and a generous corporate donation.
Last month, Seattle-based logistics and freight company Expeditors International donated $135,000 to the mounted unit, filling a funding gap not covered by the Seattle Police Foundation, said Peter Rose, CEO of Expeditors International and a Seattle Police Foundation Board member. The donation, coupled with contributions from the foundation, means that the Seattle Police Mounted Patrol unit will continue to ride for at least three more years despite no official funding from the city.
Rose said the horseback police unit is threatened during a budget squeeze because few people are aware of the function of the unit. That's why Expeditors stepped in.
"I don't think that people are aware of what it is [the mounted patrol] does," said Rose. "They're great for PR. They're great for crowd control, and they're a great deterrent for crime. Not many people are going to mess with a 2,000-pound horse."
The Seattle mounted patrol found itself on the chopping block late last year when Mayor Mike McGinn proposed to eliminate the unit to help plug the city's $67 million budget hole. But the Seattle Police Foundation, a nonprofit that supports public-safety initiatives, stepped in and pledged to finance the unit until 2014.
The foundation partnered with the Seattle Hotel Association, a nonprofit organization of 58 hotels in Seattle, to secure funding for two years and launched a public campaign to raise funding for a third year.
To date, the Seattle Police Foundation has raised $176,000, said Renée Hopkins, Seattle Police Foundation president and CEO.
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