Ban the use of police horses to control riot situations

Rejected 21 signatures

What the petition asks

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 Apply an adequate threshold point where police horses will be withdrawn when used in crowd control that escalates e.g the BLM protest in London where a horse bolted

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.

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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