Few activities attract the attention or gain the community support as the use of horses. Mounted Unit personnel will strive to leave each citizen contact with a positive impression of the Mounted Unit and the Monterey County Sheriff's Department. Mounted Unit personnel shall embrace the Community Policing philosophy
The Mounted Unit requires a lot more training than actual response to emergencies.
We seeking "active" members that have the time, energy and interest required...
Mounted Unit members must provide their own horse, transportation and tack. Members should keep in mind that not all horses are appropriate for search or enforcement duties.
| MU Officers/Board Heather Peacock, President Knute Brekke, Secretary/Treasurer |
Sworn personnel involved with the Mounted Unit
Cmdr Ed Lorenzana Sgt. Ron Willis, Sheriff's Office Coordinator |
Meetings/Functions/Training Opportunities/Call-Outs
Parades & Searches - wear your MSU uniform (not the MU t-shirt)
Date/time/location subject to change - check here for updates or contact Knute or Ron to confirm.
| 2008 | Tentative schedule subject to change |
| Jan 06 | Mounded Unit post Holiday party - pot luck and white elephant gift exchange.
Party starts at 4 PM (Knute & Wendy's place) |
| Jan 27 | Callout - search for missing 51 yr old missing her mother's home on the 74900 block of Copperhead Road in Bradley. The Monterey County Sheriff's Office search and rescue team found the body of Kim Bonita Elliott, 51, in a wooded area about 40 minutes after starting their effort. |
| Feb 07 | Farm Day meet 8 AM at Salinas Valley Coolers- Horses and static display
Participants with Horses: Knute & Wendy; Ground Crew: Heather |
| Feb 16 | Trail Assistance Ride at Toro Park. Riders - Debbie, Wendy, Knute & Heather. |
| Mar 06 | Farm day at King City fairgrounds - horses and static display |
| Mar 22 | Callout - to search for local adult male missing for 4 days. Meet at Jolon & Inter-lake road at 9 AM. Five riders; Heather, Knute, Wendy, Debbie and Meg searched their assigned area for five hours but did not locate the missing person. |
| Mar 23 | Toro Park - Easter Sunday This would be a good-will/meet and greet type event where we would ride to the different picnic areas in the Park and let the public come up and pet the horses. (cancelled following 3/22 search) |
| Mar 29 | Callout - Continue 3/22 search for suicidal local adult male. We will be searching Area 10 on Saturday along with members of the SAR ground team. Meet at Jolon & Inter-lake road at 8 AM. Heather, Janice, Jim and Judith participated in the search. |
| Mar 29 | Toro Park Trail Assistance Ride (Due to the 3/29 search request, the Toro Park Trail Assistance Ride this Saturday is canceled.) |
| Apr 11-13 | Lake San Antonio joint training hosted by SLO Posse. (Riders: Knute & Wendy Brekke, Meg Blackmon w/Floyd as her guest, Janice Gilbertson, & Heather Peacock.) |
| Apr 27 | Toro Park Trail Assistance Ride - We will meet Sunday, April 27 at 9:30 a.m. We will stage in the dirt parking area at Bessie Canyon. Take the main road into the park. The dirt parking area will be on the left across from the picnic areas. (Scheduled to ride - Janice, Debbie, Knute, Wendy & Heather) |
| May 2-4 | Lake San Antonio Wildflower Triathlon PR Detail (Knute & Wendy Brekke,
Janice Gilbertson, Debbie Hawkins, Meg Blackmon, Ron Willis)
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| May 26 | Toro Park Public Relations Detail
(Memorial Day Weekend) Let's meet at the Bessie Canyon parking lot at 10:30 a.m.
I plan on riding the picnic areas and doing a "meet and greet."
The uniform will be green pants, uniform shirt, and black saddle blanket.
Heather. |
| June 18 | Callout - 11AM on standby (without horses) if needed to help evacuate horses, provide relief to SEAT, assist in notification of residents threatened by fire in the Pine Cyn area outside King City. |
| June 21 | |
| July 04 | Update - July 4th Toro Park ride is cancelled. Heather talked to the Ranger and found out that the entire park is closed for the Scottish Games. |
| Jul 19-20 | |
| July 27 | We have a Toro Park Trail Assistance Ride scheduled for Sunday, July 27. We will meet at the Bessie Canyon Parking area at 11:00. We will ride in our search uniform (blue jeans) since we are not doing a PR event. Riders: Wendy, Knute, & Heather |
| July 30 | County - Bring Your Child to Work Day - Courthouse 1200 Aguajito Road, Monterey
Static display, a couple of horses and one member for ground crew. Participants Janice & Wendy.
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| Aug 05 | National Night Out from 3 to 8 p.m. at the Natividad Creek Park in Salinas. Static display with a few horses and at least one member for ground crew. Participants - Wendy & Knute were on horseback and Janice was on ground. Ron was there for a little while. Samuel & Heather were there to lend moral support. |
| Aug 16 | Family Ride and BBQ- Toro Park
Riders: Knute, Wendy, Heather, Debbie & Janice
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| Aug 31 | Monday, Toro Park (PR detail, parade uniform) Riders: Debbie, Kunte & Wendy |
| Sep 20 | |
| Oct 18 | Qualifications- Toro Park |
History - prior years activities, searches etc
last update - 9/16/2008 4:42:42 PM
Visitors since Aug 1, 2002