A day before Subodh Kumar Jaiswal takes the reins as Maharashtra's Director General of Police (DGP), Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis has approved the top cop's idea of reintroducing a horse-mounted squad in the Mumbai Police. The squad can be considered a parting gift from Jaiswal to the men he has led as Mumbai Commissioner of Police (CP) since July last year.

This new mounted (equestrian) squad is to come 87 years after Mumbai's finest disbanded it during the British Raj. Sources said 30 horses would be sourced in association with experts from Mahalaxmi Race Course. Various breeders and stables will help the police, and the force could either have its own stable or outsource the job of maintaining the horses.