mounted police officer

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William Ellsworth was a 20-year-old volunteer mounted police officer on his first big detail.

From Reuters • Aug. 13, 2019

At one point, when Alvy is having an existential crisis in the middle of West 4th Street, he sees a mounted police officer.

From The Guardian • Apr. 20, 2017

When her father was a young mounted police officer in New York, he rented a house there with other mounted police officers and met Ms. Brennan’s mother.

From New York Times • Aug. 2, 2013

A mounted police officer confirmed the bad news: Mini-golf could no longer be found at Coney Island.

From New York Times • Sep. 2, 2010

Even after the peremptory order of a mounted police officer had cleared the way for him James Thorold frowned on the lines of men and women pressed back against the curbstones.

From The Best Short Stories of 1915 And the Yearbook of the American Short Story by O'Brien, Edward J. (Edward Joseph Harrington)