Mounted Police Program


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Mounted Police Program
Photos of our Officers training at the RCMP training center for mounted officers.

In Feb. 2006 Palos Park police trained at the RCMP Mounted Training facility for for 2 weeks. Their class consisted of departments as vast Minneapolis, Pasadena, California, Boston, New Jersey State Police. The RCMP units train on horseback 6 days per week 9 hours a day. The units are used for crowd control, parades, search and rescue and more. The horses are supplied by RCMP members of the "The Ride". "The Ride" is the RCMP's full time officer (7 year commitment) from throughout Canada who volunteer for the group. From April until November they appear all over Canada as goodwill ambassadors. The headquarters is based in Regina, Canada. They are known in Canada as The Red Surge (The red coat) and Black thunder (all their horses are pure black). For 2 weeks each year they offer outside training courses to other mounted units. Officers Fred Villanova and Ron Philpot represented the Palos Park Police Department. The photos below show class training, individual shots on RCMP horses and graduation day.