Training Police Horses (1967)

Imber Court, Surrey. At the Metropolitan Police Mounted Branch School we see several shots of horses being trained. A man holds the rein of a horse as it runs round a circular ring; another horse is trained to walk sideways. A horse with a policeman on it’s back is fed while a man flutters a Union Jack flag around it’s head so the horse gains confidence in flag waving situations. Horses carrying policemen walk around a field through a kind of obstacle course of distractions; they walk through tunnel