<P> The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) is a well - known mounted police force, although horses are no longer in use operationally . However, horses are still used in the Musical Ride as well as by several provincial and municipal police detachments . </P> <P> The Royal Oman Police have both horse and camel mounted troopers . </P> <P> The United States Border Patrol had 200 horses in 2005 . Most of these are employed along the U.S. - Mexico border . In Arizona, these animals are fed special processed feed pellets so that their wastes do not spread non-native plants in the national parks and wildlife areas they patrol . </P> <P> Many cities in the United States have mounted units, New York having one of the largest with 55 horses as of 2016, but numerous mounted units were disbanded or downsized in the 2010s . For example, units in Boston and San Diego were disbanded by 2011, while New York City's mounted unit was reduced considerably over the last decade with 79 police officers and 60 horses in 2011--down from the 130 officers and 125 horses it had before the downsizing . Philadelphia's mounted police unit was disbanded in 2004, but reinstated in 2011 with four horses from the disbanding unit of Newark, New Jersey . The Houston, Texas Police Department's Mounted Patrol Unit, started in 1983 and now consisting of 1 lieutenant, 4 sergeants and 24 officers, has become increasingly well known due to the decision to, by the middle of 2008, remove the shoes of all its 38 mounted horses and embrace the concept of naturalizing their horses' diet and care in addition to riding them barefoot . </P>

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