How Police Horses are Trained with the Philadelphia Mounted Police | Localish 

Mounted police feels kinda like a modern day knight

Robert Dougherty, a retired Philly Mounted Police officer was one of the first people to teach me to ride. He had a couple of horses at his house on Mermaid Lane in Germantown. One of a kind person and a great teacher! He ran a small summer camp for kids and he took us to the Northwestern Avenue stables to watch old calvary videos.

These horses are so calm.

Police officers on horseback gives a calming feeling. My daughter and I once pet a horse with a Royal Canadian Mounted Police sitting on it. We pretty much forgot that there's a man armed with handcuffs, a hand gun a police stick and perhaps a tazer. Somehow animals give me that affect.

Mounted police on horseback is like modern day cowboys

Horses are just awesome in all kinds of ways. 🇺🇲🇺🇲

I heard a case were a criminal was detained and a pet the horse and because of his comfort level with the horse, he released a crazy amount of information to the officer. Another officer on horseback pursued a criminal and because he was so high up could give specific information as to where he was running and helped detain him. They are a very valuable patrol.

Wow these horses are so chill. My horse spooks when the cat runs past

I was raised on Race n 63rd in West Phila. They were always in the park and all police were friendly and knowledgeable with us kids. Felt much protection from predators in the park any time of the day. That was bk in the late sixties when predators were quietly prevalent but still around and ready to abuse us kids. I’m one of nine and one of us were always coming home with someone approached them. It’s not even a choice not to have police in the communities. Thank you for all the good you do to keep us safe and others straight

I love mounted Police horses always..

I always wanted to be a Philly Mounted Cop. Id do the job for free.

You can volunteer? I thought you had to go to school. I live riding and want to do this when I'm just a little older. What do you think I should do? I feel like I dont know enough

How do you keep the horse safe?

You know what are some reasons I can see why police officers have no excuse me of not using horses to control people because if you can't control people because it you can control people by hand well horses can do it for and horses can do it for you.

who do they protect

i feel like their imposing and intimidating and that that's the point , also so that they can see over and herd crowds .

Uma be a mounted offcer when ima be a adult

can someone identify all those horse breeds plz ?............

This is really cool, but some of the human officers need a bit more training. I see a lot of rein jerking and pulling, putting traumatic pressure on that pain bit in the poor horses' mouths.

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Spurs bids I am sick

Horse "Cops" should be Illegal. I highly doubt that horses want to trot around different towns doing "police work".. 100% animal abuse for sure.