MOUNTED POLICE TRAINING

Police Budget Cuts Preventing Training

I was so honoured to be asked to give 17 presentations at the world’s most prestigious equestrian event – the World Equestrian Games.

It was there I met Police Mounted Officers who said their unit couldn’t afford any kind of trainer at all due to budget cuts.

As the previous Spokeswoman for the WorkCover Authority – the safety aspect of that alone made me instantly want to help.

What happened to my “retirement” –
busier than ever, lol.

For 40 years I have been teaching firstly Fire Fighters, then Police Mounted Units how to use sports biomechanics in their field – and finally, after 40+ years lecturing at the world’s most prestigious universities, and teaching the most famous Police Mounted Units all over the globe, I THOUGHT I had retired (LOL).

Nothing stops someone like me! I still donate time to the International Anti-Slavery Commission on Human Trafficking, and I am happy to visit your Mounted Unit if I am in the area. Just ask!

For 40+ years I have donated Police
free of charge lectures, lessons & clinics
I’m happy to visit your Unit – for free.

Mounted Police: Crowd Control & Riot Situations

Observing major injuries in Mounted Police Units around the world, we know that if a Police Officer falls off, or is able to be pulled to the ground, or worse, the crowd can pull a horse over – it’s a disaster.

In one session – in fact in just a few minutes – learn the different ways a rider can be pulled to the ground – and the horse pulled down as well. And, learn how, with just a few adjustments, the rider literally cannot be pulled to the ground.

The world-class police biomechanics program developed is all about improving the Officer’s balance and “stickability” – by using basic science.

Mounted Police: Long Hours in the Saddle =
Knee pain & numb feet

Any endurance rider will tell you – nothing can quite explain the pain in your knees after a 24 hour – or longer – ride! I know personally from endurance riding in the 1970’s (yes I’m that old) that the pain in my knees was truly unbearable.

But numb feet are nearly as bad. How many times have you ridden back to the stable, and have to sit there for a minute or two, because if you jump straight off you feel like your ankles will break. You have to SLIDE off in SLOW MOTION. Your feet don’t work. While this isn’t that painful, more amusing, it can be deadly dangerous to a Police Officer who might need to dismount urgently, and run…and if your feet don’t work, you’re in big problems.

In just 45 minutes Officers can learn how to fix this, forever!

Police Fundraisers & Charitable Events

I have had the privilege of organising and teaching police lectures and clinics all around the world, the most famous possibly the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Lord Strathcona Garrison and London Metropolitan Police.

I have also organised many successful police fundraisers for “Friends of Police” groups and police units themselves – organising events to raise funds and awareness with open days, performances and gala evening black tie events.

Police units have used the fundraiser to purchase new jumps, upgrade their facilities, and library, buy new equipment, and help pay for the Unit to attend local community events.

Police Training – FREE OF CHARGE –
for 40+ years

It’s funny how our childhood shapes us. Every morning, asleep in the back of the car for the long journey to my mother’s work, and my big sister’s school, (before I was even old enough to go to school myself), my mother would wake me up so I could wave to the mounted police officer on the corner. Every morning he would wave to me. Going back even earlier, in the middle of the Great Depression, my mother’s family was visited by a Canadian who gave my mother a Royal Canadian Mounted Police doll. She talked about that doll, and her desire to go to Canada – and – decades later – I wind up teaching at the Lord Strathcona Mounted Garrison, Edmonton – the Royal Canadian Mounted Police!

The Police have kept me safe, my community safe all my life. The fact that I can stop by a Mounted Unit on the other side of the world, and help them be safer, and get rid of that dreadful knee pain & numb feet – is a “full circle moment”.

FREE OF CHARGE. For 40+ years I have never charged a Police Officer, Mounted Unit, Wounded Warriors or similar. I am always happy to help.

Numb feet, painful knees can end a career.

Thankfully, major injuries are rarer than we think. Most officer’s careers end not because of a major injury, but from years in the saddle – the pain in the rider’s knees and numb feet that only someone who has sat for 12 hours in a saddle can really explain. Your knees can hurt so badly, you can’t even breathe!

Staying safe in riot conditions, helping knees, and numb feet and back pain, and being able to use the demonstration as a fundraising lecture, inviting local riders and trainers of all sports, with a small entrance fee, raffles etc, with the money going to whatever fundraising your Police Unit is working on – (e.g. example, upgrading jumps, or equipment), or just helping to fund the unit so they can attend community or charity events.