Metropolitan Police Mounted Branch

Mounted MPS officer outside Buckingham Palace, London

The Metropolitan Police Mounted Branch is a Central Operations branch of London's Metropolitan Police Service. The responsibility of the branch is to conduct safe policing of football matches, and crowd control at other large public order events.

Crowd control is the primary object of the deployment of the police horses, both for orderly and disorderly gatherings of assembled crowds. The controlling units of police horses usually consist of ten Constables and one Sergeant, headed by an Inspector.

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