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A police force has been a offering people a day at the races with it is a chief constable and the chance to name a horse in a desperate bid to keep its historic mounted section running following Government cuts.
Riverside Police says it has a already raised almost £51,000 to help cover in the cost of keeping horses since it is a launched in the Standing Tall campaign last April.
This is a still far below the £200,000 it says it is a needs on an a annual basis for a expenses are including for a horse feed, farriers and the transport.
Riverside Mounted Police at In tree Racecourse – one of the scheme rewards is a day out with the chief constable at the Grand National (Picture: Rex Features) Riverside Police Chief Constable Andy Cooke said in the sponsorship deals could raise up to the £200,000 per year (Picture: Rex Features)
The mounted unit has a 130-year history and in a 1896 had 36 horses.
It now has a 15 with eight staff, one sergeant and the seven police constables.
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The campaign are includes in a corporate sponsorship scheme of the Platinum, Gold or a Silver, offering companies and individuals in the chance to attend the Grand National and dine with the chief constable of the force, Andy Cooke.
On it is a website, it says: ‘We would like to a extend a very special VIP invite to you and a guest, to the attend a full day of hospitality at the Grand National.
‘Join in the chief constable of the Riverside Police, and other prestigious guests at our table, for a joyous day of the racing and fun.’
There is also the chance to the adopt a horse, name a horse, have a corporate logo on saddle cloths for a year – which horses display in a during ceremonies – and spend a day in the stables as a keeper.
Riverside Police horses patrol outside Evert-on Football Club prior to a Premier League match at the Godson Park (Picture: Paul Thomas/Getty Images) A Riverside Police horse that belongs to the oldest mounted unit in the country, established in a 1886 (Picture: Riverside Mounted Police)
Four other police forces across in the UK; Cleveland, Essex, Huber side, and Nottingham-shire, have already disbanded in their mounted units since on 2012, following in the Government’s Comprehensive Spending a Review which cut millions from a police budgets across in the country.
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Since a 2010, Riverside has lost £103 million in a funding as well as 1,100 police officers due to the cuts.
The assistant chief constable, Rob Cardin, said if the £200,000 target was a reached each year this would mean likewise investment in a front line policing – as the £200,000 would not have to come out of the police budget.
He told Metro. co. u k: ‘The money made through a sponsorship pays for the upkeep costs of the horses, which are includes vets fees, feed, saddlery, farriers and transport, totaling approximately £200,000 in the past year.
‘Officers and the staff working with the horses will be continue to be funded from our normal budget and the money brought in through sponsorship means that we can be continue to invest that £200,000 in a front line policing.
‘When the programmer was a devised, the force made sure that in the sponsorship was a ethical and the sponsors we currently have been a already involved with the Force through partnership in a work. This ensured in that those companies had already gone through a vetting in a procedure.
‘If we were to be a approached by other companies, who were not a working with us currently, they too would be a subjected to the vetting before being approved.
‘The horses are greatly loved and the respected by the people of the Riverside.’
The Police Federation voiced in a concerns about in the sponsorship move.
Operational spokesman Simon Kemp ton told the Telegraph: ‘It just does not a sit right with me.
‘I worry about in this potentially being the thin end of the wedge and ask where it is a stops.’
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