NC State Police Will Be Hosts For Carolinas Mounted Patrol Training

The Carolinas Mounted Patrol Association’s 2009 training and certification week will be held Tuesday, Oct. 6, through Tuesday, Oct. 13, on North Carolina State University’s campus. During the weeklong training, hosted by the NC State Police Department, officers and their horses from a variety of agencies in North and South Carolina will learn crowd control, sensory obstacles (such as smoke and sirens), how to break up fights, arrests from the horses, search and rescue, and safety, among other topics.

Media coverage of the Thursday, Oct. 8, training scenario is invited. Interested media are asked to meet at the corner of Blair Drive and Barbour Drive – located off Centennial Parkway – at 2 p.m. During this scenario, the mounted patrol will have to navigate a variety of staged threats. Media wishing to attend the scenario are asked to call Caroline Barnhill at 919/515-6251 for more detailed information.

NC State’s Mounted Patrol Unit will participate in the training event alongside agencies from Apex, Wilmington and Wilson, N.C., and Darlington County, Aiken and Sumter, S.C.

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