horse patrol
Equine police unit
A horse patrol is a unit of mounted officers who conduct surveillance, crowd control, or law enforcement duties on horseback.
Police horse patrols remain common in urban areas where mounted officers can see over crowds and navigate spaces vehicles cannot reach: The horse patrol monitored the parade route.
Park rangers and border agents also conduct horse patrols in rugged terrain.
- mountedFixed in position
- mounted policeOfficers on horseback
- cavalryMounted military force
- rangerProtected land patroller
- park rangerPublic lands officer
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- patrolbeat cop, walking beat, beat, rounds, squad car
- security patrolsecurity guard, guard dogs, guard, watchman, sentry
- Canadian PoliceRCMP, Mounties, provincial police, municipal police, chief of police
- Mounted PoliceRCMP, Mounties
- emergency vehiclesfire truck, ambulance, police car, cop car, rescue truck
- rural lawcadastre, land registry, tenant farming, grazing rights, sharecropping
horse patrolsquad car
Police officer's vehicle
patrol car · helicopter patrol · drone surveillance · digital surveillance · foot patrol
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