Mounted Police Today

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I think this must be an example of the Belgian[img][/url][/img] cavalry 1911.
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Losses and Gains in American mounted police units -

After almost four decades on the police force in Newark, N.J., Lt. Robert Marelli spends his last days itemizing saddles, bridles, and brushes.

"My heart's been cut out," said Marelli, poised to retire. "The unit's been decimated. This is what I've known. They're putting me out to pasture, too."

Newark's mounted unit of 18 horses will be officially out of work come Jan. 31 after 120 years, victims of budget woes. But Newark's loss is Philadelphia's gain.

Sometime this week, Marelli will load up a horse trailer with feed, hay, and bedding, and bring the Philadelphia Police Department four new recruits: Broadway Kevin, Amazing Art, Seelster Sam, and American Yankee.

http://articles.philly.com/2011-01-10/n ... olice-unit


With his high-profile job, Lancaster police Chief Keith Sadler is accustomed to being the center of attention.

Except when he's astride Duke the Percheron.

As he rides with the police department's mounted patrol, Sadler said, people love to walk up and pet his horse.

"They'll remember Duke's name," he said with a laugh, "but not mine."

Sadler, however, has no problem playing second fiddle to Duke. Since he took over as chief in April 2008, he has become a big supporter of the four-horse unit and trained to become one of its riders.

Other cities across the country are not so fortunate, as many are putting their mounted patrols out to pasture because of budget shortfalls. Lancaster, though, has been able to buck that trend because the money to cover horse-related expenses doesn't come out of the department budget but from the Lancaster City Police Foundation.

Read more: http://articles.lancasteronline.com/loc ... z1FYnNRV2C


EAST MARLBOROUGH — Philadelphia Police Officers Ed Holmes and Jane Rash are reporting to training classes in Chester County once a month to better equip themselves for their new jobs.

The veteran officers are not honing their gun skills or sharpening their pursuit techniques; they are in school to improve their understanding of horse health issues.

Holmes and Rash, training officers for the city's newly reinstated Mounted Police Unit, are attending equine education classes offered at no cost at the University of Pennsylvania's New Bolton Center in East Marlborough.
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This city is as strapped as any other, but it is bucking a trend and bringing back its mounted police force.

Other cities, including Newark N.J., are still disbanding their mounted units, but Philadelphia plans to bring back cops on horses this fall — if a private foundation can raise $2 million to fund the patrols until the city can afford to take over the cost.

With recently successful pro sports teams and rowdy Saturday night street scenes, Philly needs police horses for crowd control, says Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey, who also championed mounted police in Washington, D.C., when he headed the police force there. The city also needs better relations between residents and the police force as it struggles with a high crime rate, and horses can help there, too, Ramsey says.
http://tucsoncitizen.com/usa-today-news ... ice-again/

Memphis -
As the city administration began anticipating a tough budget season, city department heads, including Police Director Larry Godwin, were asked last fall to show how they might make double-digit percentage cuts from their budgets. But even if asked to make cuts, Godwin said, the mounted unit would not be the first to go; eliminating it wouldn't save that much money.
http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/20 ... of-patrol/[/quote]
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US Border Patrol saves mustangs, puts them to work along the Canadian border.
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Story wrote:US Border Patrol saves mustangs, puts them to work along the Canadian border.
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First the government packer advertisement . . . now this scenery. . . these photos are giving me cabin fever and the desk job blues.
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The sort of photograph that makes you really envious of somebody else's job:

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Wonder how much those guys pay to do those jobs?
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Two pics from Mongolia - once and now:

Here a mounted guard from the nineties,
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Both use horses from Mongolia, just the equipment has completely altered.

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Reiter wrote:Two pics from Mongolia - once and now:

Here a mounted guard from the nineties,
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Police or army?
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Please excuses me if this has been asked before but are modern modern mounted police trained to use their firearms from the saddle or are they only trained to fire from the ground?
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At the Last Chance Ranch in upper Bucks County, president Lori McCutcheon spends some time with Ranger. The brawny gelding, rescued from an auction, is being trained for his new life as a member of the Philadelphia Police Department's resurrected mounted patrol unit.
http://www.philly.com/philly/living/134 ... d=15585797

Borowksi, along with over 30 horses and riders, saddled up on Sunday for a ride in the Wissahickon Valley to benefit the Philadelphia Police Department's recently reinstated Mounted Patrol Unit.
Sponsored by the Philadelphia Chapter of the Pennsylvania Equine Council and the Philadelphia Police Foundation, the event – titled "Pony Up for the Philadelphia Police Mounted Patrol Unit" – sought to raise money for the Mounted Unit and bring attention to Fairmount Park's horse-friendly trails.
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Honoring the Men and Women behind the Badge

Note the breast collar, also.

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The Hershey Derry Township Historical Society has on display an old saddle and uniform of the Pennsylvania State mounted police (which still exists).
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A 38 page book/article on “Why your city can and should have mounted police.” Free for downloading at:

http://liberatedhorsemanship.com/Libera ... _Home.html
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Houston Mounted Police, as seen from the Pennzoil Building.

I couldn't get a good look at their tack, but they almost appeared to be using McClellans from where I was.
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