Tag: Thebarton barracks
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Bill to shift police from Thebarton barracks passes $150 million
SA Police has been working since August 2022 to relocate 15 police units – including 350 staff, 32 police horses and 27 dogs – from Thebarton barracks to allow the state government to begin work this year on the $3.2 billion Women’s and Children’s Hospital project. In September 2023, police revealed the cost of relocating…
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South Australia’s police museum is moving to the CBD
The state government has secured a lease for the museum at the former AAMI state office on the corner of King William Street and Sturt Street, opposite the King’s Head Hotel and the City South tram station. The two-level corner office building holds 1064 square metres of office space, 659 square metres of warehouse space…
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Cost $114m and rising for Thebarton police barracks move
Senior police appeared before parliament’s budget and finance committee on Monday to give an update on relocating SA Police operations from the state heritage-listed Thebarton barracks, which is set to be bulldozed for a $3.2 billion Women’s and Children’s Hospital. Assistant Commissioner Noel Bamford told the committee that new sites have been identified for nine…
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More costs loom for police horse move
SA Police and the Department for Infrastructure and Transport officials appeared before parliament’s Public Works Committee today to give an update on the relocation of the Mounted Operations Unit from Thebarton barracks. The Malinauskas Government is moving the police horses and Dog Operations Unit to a new facility on government-owned land near the State Sports Park in…
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Mali’s Mad Mouse escapade around the city
A little bit of Adelaide died when they removed the Mad Mouse from sideshow alley at the Show. Originally developed as the Wild Mouse, or Wilden Maus, in Germany in 1957, the little red rollercoaster was rebadged the Mad Mouse, to save on signage costs, when the operators of Sydney’s Luna Park brought three of…
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‘Not optimal’: Commissioner’s frustration over police horse relocation
The state government on Friday revealed it would backtrack on its plan announced in June to build a new police horse barracks on land near Adelaide Airport, with PFAS contamination forcing the government to consider a backup option at Gepps Cross. The Gepps Cross site – a portion of government-owned land near the State Sports…
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Thebarton police horse advice revealed
Renewal SA prepared a list of site options for SA Police in September 2022, outlining where the police horses could be located once the Thebarton barracks are razed for the new $3.2 billion Women’s and Children’s Hospital. The full list of site options has not been released publicly, with SA Police currently in a legal…
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‘Obligation to Cabinet’: Police challenge barracks FOI order
The Crown Solicitor’s Office, on behalf of SA Police, filed an application in the South Australian Civil and Administrative Tribunal (SACAT) on Tuesday for a review of a freedom of information (FOI) direction issued by the state Ombudsman on June 5. The Ombudsman had ordered SA Police to release 19 documents about the relocation of…
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Contamination, longer response times: Concerns over airport police barracks move
The state government earlier this month revealed it had identified two plots of Adelaide Airport land as its preferred location to build a new police horse barracks, overruling SA Police’s controversial first preference for an 8ha plot of city park land. The new options are a parcel of land opposite the Harbour Town shopping centre…
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Police horses land at airport and CBD as Govt sidesteps park lands grab
Premier Peter Malinauskas this morning announced the results of the state government’s lengthy search for land to house SA Police’s Mounted Operations Unit, following its controversial decision last September to raze the state heritage listed Thebarton barracks for a new $3.2bn hospital. In March, SA Police nominated Park 21 West, an eight-hectare plot of southern park…