Ban the use of police horses for purposes of crowd control

Rejected 21 signatures

What the petition asks

The use of police horses at protests is an intimidation tactic, and serves to raise tensions at protests or other events where they are used. This puts horses in harm's way unnecessarily, when there are other more efficient ways of gaining a vantage point (as we are told that is what horses are for)

This is the kind of reform the Police will not consider without legislation. The police are often heavy handed anyway, and intimidatory tactics are things they would no doubt prefer to keep at their disposal.

The government needs to consider this an animal rights issue, as if a horse gets ridden, or even used to charge through a protest and gets injured, that is not the horses fault. The fault can only be laid with the Police for charging in the first place.

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

7 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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