Horse power used on police patrol

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Police in Lancashire are patrolling the streets on horseback.
Mounted patrols are being increased in the Burnley and Padiham areas of the county in a push to cut crime and reassure the public.
Insp Jes Holland said the patrols had already been "very well received" by the public and allowed officers to reach places inaccessible by car.
"Officers working on the horses can often see activity which might otherwise go unnoticed," he added.
Insp Holland said: "The horses will go wherever we need them but for the time being, they will be patrolling the outskirts of the town centre.
"Their main priority will be to deter criminal activity and to reassure local residents.
"However they will also be doing some targeting work with each mounted officer having been given names and photographs of suspected offenders to look out for."​

 

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Mounted police

Mounted police are police who patrol on horseback. They continue to serve in remote areas and in metropolitan areas where their day-to-day function may be picturesque or ceremonial, but they are also employed in crowd control and increasingly in the UK for crime prevention and high visibility policing roles. Mounted police may be employed for specialized duties ranging from patrol of parks and wilderness areas, where police cars would be impractical or noisy, to riot duty, where the horse serves to intimidate those whom it is desired to disperse through its larger size, or may be sent in to snatch trouble makers or offenders from the crowd. For example, in the UK mounted police are most often seen at football matches, although they are also a common sight on the streets of many towns and cities as a visible police presence and crime deterrent during the day and night.

A well-known mounted police force is the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP). The RCMP now uses standard police methods and does not use any horses operationally. However, horses are used in the Musical Ride, a ceremonial RCMP pageant. In the United States, mounted patrols are still essential to local law enforcement operations. The largest Midwestern mounted patrol is in the Minneapolis Police Department of Minneapolis, Minnesota.

The U.S. Border Patrol had 205 horses as of 2005. Most of these are employed along the U.S.-Mexico border. In Arizona, these animals are fed special processed feed pellets so that their wastes do not spread non-native plants in the national parks and wildlife areas they patrol.[​