The Knoxville mounted police unit has been the talk of the town since it started making its official rounds in May 2025.
It was a long time in the making to get a mounted police unit in Knoxville. The department has long been supportive of introducing a mounted police unit to the force. Knoxville Police Department’s communications manager, Scott Erland, talks a little more about how the mounted unit started.
“Chief Paul Noel, who took over as chief in June 2022, came from a department in New Orleans that had a pretty robust mounted unit,” Erland said. “He saw the benefits of it there.”…