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Stueben Scout
Posted: Fri Nov 30, 2007 3:47 pm
by wkambic
I've got a Scout and I'd agree with Ron (although it's tough to tell from what you can see).
Bill Kambic
Mangalarga Marchador: Uma raça, uma paixão
NYPD
Posted: Fri Nov 30, 2007 9:36 pm
by Dave J.
Neat article on the NYPD Unit.
"Four-Legged Cops in Gotham"
http://www.nyc24.org/2000/issue02/story01/index.html
Posted: Tue Dec 04, 2007 12:11 pm
by Pat Holscher
Prince William County, VA
Posted: Fri Nov 28, 2008 2:07 pm
by Dave J.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmoV72INoqw
Angela Kelly of Horse Girl TV, does a 'ride along' with the Prince William County, VA Police Department Mounted Unit......
Re: Mounted Police Today
Posted: Fri Nov 28, 2008 3:15 pm
by luigi
Italian Carbinieri performing a "charge" at the "Palio of Siena" the (in)famous traditional horce race in the central place of the medieval town
http://it.youtube.com/watch?v=vDAs8DgNw ... re=related
The closing rievocative "charge" at the 194th anniversary of foundation of the corp in Piazza di Siena in Rome. This year also is the 160th anniversary of the charge at Pastrengo, April 30th 1848, where the Carabinieri of King's Carlo Alberto own lifeguard charged a formation of Austrians on which they stepped into while escorting the King.
http://it.youtube.com/watch?v=D8uRb9oFe ... re=related
I haven't yet found a good depiction of the whole "carosello storico"
Re: Mounted Police Today
Posted: Fri Mar 06, 2009 1:20 pm
by kerry savee
Re: Mounted Police Today
Posted: Sun Oct 04, 2009 8:20 am
by jan
The today's saddle in use with the Belgian Federal Police.
Jan
Re: Mounted Police Today
Posted: Sun Oct 04, 2009 9:44 am
by selewis
Very nice. Thanks Jan. It's nice to see the string girth in use. Fashion (I assume) has led to its decline in this country, where it is a special order item.
Also, I see that the leathers are indented over four or five holes. Does this indicate a variety of uses to which the saddle is put, or several riders using the same saddle?
Sandy
Re: Mounted Police Today
Posted: Sun Oct 04, 2009 3:17 pm
by jan
selewis wrote:Also, I see that the leathers are indented over four or five holes. Does this indicate a variety of uses to which the saddle is put, or several riders using the same saddle?
Sandy, Yes the saddles are used over the time by several riders.
Jan
Re: Mounted Police Today
Posted: Sun Oct 04, 2009 8:18 pm
by Pat Holscher
jan wrote:The today's saddle in use with the Belgian Federal Police.
Jan
Excellent photos, thanks! Quite a classic rig.
Re: Mounted Police Today
Posted: Wed Oct 07, 2009 6:55 am
by Pat Holscher
Jan, what use does Belgium make of mounted police?
Re: Mounted Police Today
Posted: Wed Oct 07, 2009 1:54 pm
by Dave J.
The North American Police Equestrian Championships 2009 was held at the Farm Show Complex, in Harrisburg, PA, on September 28-29th. I'll post some pictures, and some links when I get a chance.
Class-A Uniform inspection.
Officer Ray Alexander and Paco from the Lexington Mounted Unit take First Place
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekf3mzBSYbw
There was also an Equitation test, and an obstacle course.
Re: Mounted Police Today
Posted: Sun Oct 11, 2009 4:33 pm
by jan
Pat Holscher wrote:Jan, what use does Belgium make of mounted police?
Pat, For the moment there are around 203 horses in service with the Federal mounted police, the ex-Gendarmerie, these are used in various roles from keeping order at football matches and all kinds of demonstrations and riots, patroling in rural area's, the beach or big city parks in holiday summer time, cermonial performances like escorting ambassadors, providing a full escort for the King on the national day. They have also a all white horse trumpetter corps that performs on public shows. And further patroling rock festivals and shows like this years reenactment at Waterloo.
About the last I have this little story to share, when I visited this years reenactment at Waterloo I noticed a riderless horse in the field (a good 2 km from the Hougoumont farm were the show was on) coming galloping towards the main Brussels / Charleroi road that crosses the old battlefield. I was able to catch the horse, from a French curassier reenactment unit, and there I was standing alone on the side of the road with the horse and no rider of it in sight. I warned a passing police patrol and after a good 40 minutes a mounted patrol came up to take over the horse and bring it back to the "French" camp. (that location was not now to me at that moment)
So that was also one of the tasks they had that day, to collect run away horses and keep an eye on the crowd gathering on the fields.
The lost horse when the patrol had taking it over,
In traditional uniform as Royal escort,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAnIxFD- ... re=related
Jan
Re: Mounted Police Today
Posted: Sun Oct 11, 2009 7:57 pm
by Couvi
As discussed in a previous thread, the drummer was on a paint horse.
Re: Mounted Police Today
Posted: Fri Oct 16, 2009 12:04 pm
by jan
This was the previous model used by the Belgian Gendarmerie before it was replaced by the Stübben, it is based on the army's model 1911. These were made in the sixties / late seventies by the saddle store Wagemans in Brussels and in use until around 2002.
Jan
Re: Mounted Police Today
Posted: Sat Oct 17, 2009 7:28 am
by Pat Holscher
jan wrote:This was the previous model used by the Belgian Gendarmerie before it was replaced by the Stübben, it is based on the army's model 1911. These were made in the sixties / late seventies by the saddle store Wagemans in Brussels and in use until around 2002.
Thanks Jan. Excellent photos.
Jan
Re: Mounted Police Today
Posted: Wed Jan 20, 2010 10:00 pm
by Pat Holscher
01/20/2009 - The U.S. Park Police Horse Mounted Unit makes its way down Pennsylvania Avenue during the 2009 presidential inaugural parade in Washington, D.C., Jan. 20, 2009. More than 5,000 men and women in uniform are providing military ceremonial support to the presidential inauguration, a tradition dating back to George Washington's 1789 inauguration. (DoD photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Derrick Ingle, U.S. Navy/Released)
Re: Mounted Police Today
Posted: Wed Jan 20, 2010 10:13 pm
by Pat Holscher
01/11/2009 - U.S. Air Force Tech Sgt. Billy Strohm, an escort element stand-in, walks with members from the U.S. Park Police Horse Mounted Unit during the 56th Presidential Inauguration rehearsal in Washington, D.C., Jan. 11, 2009. More than 5,000 men and women in uniform are providing military ceremonial support to the presidential inauguration, a tradition dating back to George Washington's 1789 inauguration. (DoD photo by Tech. Sgt. Alan Port, U.S. Air Force/Released)
Wyoming Game and Fish Department
Posted: Wed Feb 10, 2010 9:20 am
by Pat Holscher
State of Wyoming Game Wardens. From the looks of it, gathered in Cheyenne.
http://gf.state.wy.us/GameandFishJobs/u ... G_0300.JPG
Re: Mounted Police Today
Posted: Wed Feb 09, 2011 4:16 pm
by Kelton Oliver
I note that Philadelphia plans to bring back mounted units.
http://www.officer.com/web/online/Top-N ... ts/1$56738
"With recently successful pro sports teams and rowdy Saturday night street scenes, Philly needs police horses for crowd control, says Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey."
'In March, a series of swarming crowds of young people, called "flash mobs," in Center City neighborhoods resulted in near-riots and arrests. That highlighted the need for the city to have its own mounted cops.
'One horse is worth 10 people when it comes to crowd control,' Ramsey says."
