MOUNTED POSSE
Thursday, August 13, 2009 at 02:08PM
Fabian Lewkowicz in Santa Monica Police Department

(TOP) Retired Captain from Anaheim Police Department Marc Hedgpeth rides Blaze, 8, through an obstacle course during California Mounted Officers Association's (CMOA) Mounted Patrol Police Horse Sensory Training and Horse Mounted Baton Course at Will Rogers State Park on Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2009. Thirty-five Mounted Police officers from ten departments from San Diego to Santa Francisco participated in CMOA's Mounted Patrol Police Horse Sensory Training and Horse Mounted Baton Course Training program at Will Rogers State Park. The class included 8 hours training exercises and drills in the area of sensory training. The officers and their mount were subjected to various types of sensory distractions often seen in day to day policing. The officers were placed in crowd control type scenarios throughout the course.

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