The course is 60 hours long (Sun. through Fri.).
You'll learn skills such as:

• Selecting the Police Horse
• Horse health, care, and barn management
• Horse Physchology
• Lungeing horse and rider
• Equitation ... Includes jumping
• Formation Riding ...Cavalry drill techniques leading to tactical maneuvers
• Crowd Control ... Includes crowd psychology and tactical maneuvers
• Sensory and Obstacle Training ... Includes street hazards and shooting from horseback
• Night Sensory Training
• Arrest and Officer Survival Techniques
• Search and Rescue Techniques ... Includes missing persons, fugitives, and evidence location
• Intermediate and Advanced Courses are also available.

CLASS SCHEDULE

IMPORTANT NOTES
Schedule times may change due to differences in seasonal and geographical daylight hours and weather conditions. Each day will begin with the student properly feeding, grooming and tacking his/her mount. The student will be mounted and ready for inspection at the scheduled starting time for each class. Unless otherwise stated, training will be on horseback.

SUNDAY - 7 HOURS
1400 - 1600	Registration
1600 - 1800	Equitation Evaluation
1800 - 2100	Exercise of horse and rider; on the trail - ride out to dinner - night riding.

MONDAY - 11.5 HOURS
0700 - 1200	Equitation Training; Jumping, Cavalry Drill Techniques; Introduction of Horse to Firearms Desensitization
1200 - 1300	Lunch
1300 - 1700	Horse Psychology and Training Methods (Classroom)
1700 - 1930	Equitation and Cavalry Drills.

TUESDAY - 10 HOURS
0700 - 0900	Lungeing Horse and Rider
0900 - 1100	Equitation Training: shoulder movements, side passing, backing and jumping
1100 - 1200	Arrest Techniques from Horseback; Firearms Desensitization
1200 - 1300	Lunch
1300 - 1500	Crowd Control (Classroom)
1500 - 1800	Crowd Control Tactical Formations.

WEDNESDAY 14 HOURS
0700 - 1000	Sensory and Obstacle Training for street hazards including firearms
1000 - 1100	Search and Rescue Techniques (Classroom)
1100 - 1700	Lunch ride into town and Practice Drill Techniques and Tactical Formations
1700 - 1830	Horse Anatomy, Tack and Equipment Nomenclature and Use of various bits, bridles, and saddles
1830 - 1930	Dinner
1930 - 2300	Drill and Tactical Maneuvers followed by Nighttime Sensory and Obstacle Training.

THURSDAY - 10 HOURS
0700 - 0900	Sensory and Obstacle Training, including Firearms Desensitization
0900 - 1200	Search and Rescue Operation
1200 - 1300	Lunch
1300 - 1500	Drill and Tactical Crowd Control Techniques
1500 - 1800	Selecting the Police Horse; Horse Health Care and Barn Management (Classroom and Veterinarian)
1800 -	B.B.Q. Dinner/Partry with optional Trail Ride.

FRIDAY - 8 HOURS
0800 - 1000	Shooting and Officer Survival from Horseback
1000 - 1200	Equitation and Jumping; Practice Graduation Ride
1200 - 1300	Lunch
1300 - 1400	Test and Review
1400 - 1700	Full "Class A" Uniform Exhibition Ride and Graduation Ceremony.