Rejected petition Ban the use of police horses to control riot situations

Remove from the situation, police horses that are being used in calm crowd control when crowd activity escalates to violence and riots. Apply an adequate threshold point where police horses will be withdrawn when used in crowd control that escalates e.g the BLM protest in London where a horse bolted

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As an owner and rider of horses for most of my life I can attest to the fear that horses can and do feel in certain situations. No matter how well trained or calm they are trained to be, in a riot situation no horse will be absent of fear and no amount of training can prevent that fear being felt. The police in this matter have a choice to do this job but the horses do not. Choosing to place them in these situations is akin to animal cruelty and should be banned immediately.

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We have published the following petitions, which you might like to sign:

Ban the use of horses in the police force: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/325179

Ban the use of horses for crowd control: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/325275

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Date submitted 6 June 2020
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