mounted policeman

Ahead was a mounted policeman in khaki directing traffic.

Nell was the long-suffering, often-imperiled fiancée of the hapless Canadian mounted policeman Dudley Do-Right.

A “song about getting arrested in Canada,” “Thirteen” included this rejoinder to a power-tripping mounted policeman’s questions: “He asked me for my name and where I dwell / I just looked him in the eye and sang ‘Blue Yodel No. 9’ / He didn’t catch the reference, I could tell.”

And do that to a mounted policeman?

"When it all went horribly wrong was when I mentioned that a mounted policeman had effectively charged into fans outside the ground and had made a bad situation worse. At this point the DCI flipped. Some of his questioning became really aggressive. He asked: 'Who are you to make accusations against the police? You can't get away with it. Who do you think you are?' "I started getting asked about my political persuasions.