"mounted police" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈmaʊntɪd pəˈliːs/
Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} mounted police (uncountable)
  1. A unit of the civil police who are specifically trained to serve duty on horseback. Their duties can be ceremonial, or often for crowd control, and to police areas of difficult access or wilderness areas. Wikipedia link: mounted police Tags: uncountable Categories (topical): Collectives, Law enforcement Derived forms: mountie, Mountie, Mounties, North-West Canadian Mounted Police (alt: NWMP), Royal Canadian Mounted Police (alt: RCMP) Translations (unit of the civil police): ratsupoliisi (Finnish), police montée [feminine] (French), berittene Polizei [feminine] (German), Reiterstaffel [broadly, feminine] (German), policja konna [feminine] (Polish), ко́нная поли́ция (kónnaja polícija) [feminine] (Russian)

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