Petition · past parliament
End the use of horses by mounted police units in the UK.
Rejected
21 signatures
What the petition asks
The use of horses in mounted police units should be ended.
There is no ethical or moral justification for the use of horses by the police force.
Horses do not have choices about how we use them and to deliberately train them against their nature, to become weapons is inherently wrong and cruel.
They cannot ever be sufficiently trained to accept the situations they are used in and will always be fearful.
Tax payers are funding legalised abuse of horses without questioning and there is no place for that in modern society.
Horses do not have choices about how we use them and to deliberately train them against their nature, to become weapons is inherently wrong and cruel.
They cannot ever be sufficiently trained to accept the situations they are used in and will always be fearful.
Tax payers are funding legalised abuse of horses without questioning and there is no place for that in modern society.
Why it was rejected
There was already a petition about this issue. Duplicates are rejected so signatures collect in one place.
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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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Source: the official petition page. Last checked 15 Jul 2026.