Ban police using horses to control protests and riots

Rejected 21 signatures

What the petition asks

Ban police using horses to control protests and riots. Address other ways of controlling such violence.
Police Services in the UK often use Horses to control riots and protests. This means that Horses are often subjected to very frightening scenes, and are often targeted by the public.

There has been several cases, where Horses have been injured and attacked, due to the public. Horses are easily scared, the slightest incident can make a horse petrified.

Horses do receive some 'Amour', they wear plastic eye shields, leg armour and nose guards. But this doesn’t compete with some things being thrown at them.

The only way we can be sure that horses and riders are not injured during protests and riots; is to exclude them from current and future Police Methods of riot control.

Why it was rejected

There was already a petition about this issue. Duplicates are rejected so signatures collect in one place.

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

Ban the use of horses in the police force: Ban the use of horses in the police force

Ban the use of horses for crowd control: Ban the use of horses for crowd control

Timeline

6 Jun 2020	Petition opened for signatures
18 Jun 2020	Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 21

Status Rejected

Rejected 18 Jun 2020

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