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AP Wolf
Assistant Commissioner
Username: Apwolf
Post Number: 2942
Registered: 2-2003
| | Posted on Saturday, December 10, 2005 - 1:09 pm: | 
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I find myself somewhat nonplussed by the lack of mention in press and police reports of the Mounted Branch of the Metropolitan Police in connection with the Whitechapel Murders.
For ‘H’ division - Whitechapel - played a prominent role in the employment and deployment of this highly specialised branch of the Metropolitan Police, and I would have thought such mounted officers would, or could, have played a crucial and dramatic role in not only the hunt for the murderer, but also as a preventative measure.
According to reports from 1886 the Mounted Branch was much enlarged in that year, and regular horse patrols were dramatically increased. |
Puzzled
Unregistered guest
| | Posted on Saturday, December 10, 2005 - 1:24 pm: |
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Did the police horses wear rubber strips nailed to their hooves to silence their approach? |
AP Wolf
Assistant Commissioner
Username: Apwolf
Post Number: 2944
Registered: 2-2003
| | Posted on Saturday, December 10, 2005 - 3:20 pm: |
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With about 16,000 horses passing through the Whitechapel Road every night - apart from hay market nights when there were about 20,000 horses - I wouldn't have thought it would have made any difference whether they were wearing rubbers or not.
Perhaps the police horses had blue lights on their heads and a police siren up their asp?
You clever clog you. |
Suzi Hanney
Assistant Commissioner
Username: Suzi
Post Number: 3379
Registered: 7-2003
| | Posted on Saturday, December 10, 2005 - 4:32 pm: |
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Hi AP take a look at
http://www.met.police.uk/merton/Newpolice.htm
Has some interesting things to say re horses and bloodhounds....... oddly
Best
Suzi |
Suzi Hanney
Assistant Commissioner
Username: Suzi
Post Number: 3380
Registered: 7-2003
| | Posted on Saturday, December 10, 2005 - 4:39 pm: |
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or http://www.met.police.uk/mountedbranch/history.htm
I quite an interesting read re dates etc
Suzi |
Suzi Hanney
Assistant Commissioner
Username: Suzi
Post Number: 3381
Registered: 7-2003
| | Posted on Saturday, December 10, 2005 - 4:40 pm: |
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IS quite an interesting read too!!
Suzi x |
Eddie Derrico
Detective Sergeant
Username: Eddie
Post Number: 140
Registered: 9-2005
| | Posted on Saturday, December 10, 2005 - 7:37 pm: |
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Hi A.P.
Very interesting. I never knew about them. I wonder how many of the Mounted Branch were policing in the Whitechapel area. The website that Suzi gave us says that they employed 50 officers by 1805.
Yours Truly,
Eddie |
jason_connachan
Unregistered guest
| | Posted on Sunday, December 11, 2005 - 5:02 pm: |
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Wouldn't the mounted branch be used more for crowd control? Im surprised we dont hear more about them during the aftermath of the murders, when streets were becoming clogged with onlookers.
btw, Champion the Wonderhorse could have solved the case in 20 minutes |
Suzi Hanney
Assistant Commissioner
Username: Suzi
Post Number: 3394
Registered: 7-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, December 13, 2005 - 3:38 pm: |
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Hi all
God knows how many they had in 1888and where they were employed.......wish I knew.....am going to find out!
Suzi |
