#ATXCouncil proposes eliminating mounted patrol from @Austin_Police fox7austin.com/news/city-coun…
“So when officers go in to make arrests or they go in to break up fights, we will bring the horses in to provide a barrier around them so they can do whatever they need to do without worry of any of the people in the crowd coming up behind them to do any harmful things to them,”
The team of mounted officers is used mainly for crowd control, but the department also turns to them to reopen roads, engage with the community, and even search and rescue operations.
“One well-trained officer on a well-trained horse is equal to 10 officers on foot in a crowd control situation. And we can do that in such a deescalating way.
So we can go in and move a crowd, because they can see us when we are eight feet high in the air,” said Sgt. Julie Payne with the mounted patrol unit.
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