A few weeks after a collie adopted the men of the Richmond Hill police station, he found a mother cat with newborn kittens in an alley near the police station. After carefully considering the situation, he decided to make preparations to be their knight in shining armor.
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1924: Sport, the Richmond Hill Police Dog Who Rescued a Cat Family
Posted: 3rd September 2021 by The Hatching Cat in Dog Heroes, Dog MascotsTags: Herbert Graham, New York Police Department, NYPD history, Richmond Hill Police, Richmond Hill Queens
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1923: Tramp, the Beloved Police Cat of the Richmond Hill Police Station
Posted: 25th August 2021 by The Hatching Cat in Cat Mascots, Feline MascotsTags: 102nd Preciinct, 283rd Precinct, Cats of Old New York, police cats, Queens history, Richmond Hill Police, Richmond Hill Queens
In March 1916, the Richmond Hill Police precinct, which covered all of Richmond Hill, Woodhaven, Morris Park, and part of Forest Hills, was designated a mounted precinct. That is, every mounted police officer throughout Queens was transferred to the 283rd Precinct in Richmond Hill.
With more horses came more stables — and more vermin. What the Richmond Hill Police needed was a good to mouser to handle all the rats and mice that shared the stables with the horses.
