mounted police

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmaʊntɪd pəˈliːs/

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.

Usage notes

• As a collective noun, the mounted police are referred to using plural pronouns and verb forms, such as they and were.

Derived terms

• mountie
• Mountie
• Mounties
• North-West Canadian Mounted Police (NWMP)
• Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP)

 

Translations

unit of the civil police

• Finnish: ratsupoliisi (fi)
• French: police montée (fr) f
• German: berittene Polizei f, (loosely) Reiterstaffel (de) f
• Polish: policja konna f
• Russian: ко́нная поли́ция (ru) f (kónnaja polícija)

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