Community Safety Mounted Volunteers

Please note we have now closed for applications for the first phase of the Community Safety Mounted Volunteer scheme. We will reopen for applications for the next phase in a few months.

In the meantime, if you would like any further information about the scheme, please email [email protected]

Calling all horse riders! Can you help us put the neigh in our neighbourhoods?

We have launched a new Community Safety Mounted Volunteer scheme across the rural communities across Hull and East Riding.

We’re looking for volunteers who can actively promote crime prevention, share information and report incidents of concern whilst on their regular hacks, helping our rural communities feel safer.

The aim is to provide reassurance to residents, promoting trust and confidence in the police whilst enhancing relationships between the police and the community. The mounted volunteers will actively promote crime prevention and share information and reported incidents of concern to help rural communities feel safer.

Mounted volunteers MUST own or have access to their own horse.

If you have any questions about the scheme, please contact the Community Safety Team and we will get back to you.

Key Responsibilities:

• Assist in providing a high visibility mounted presence to provide reassurance to rural areas and help to be the eyes and ears of the community.
• Reduce opportunity for crime by increasing crime prevention advice and awareness.
• Provide Crime Prevention Advice where appropriate and report any unusual/suspicious activity and road-related matters.
• Engage with members of the rural community and help in developing positive relationships between the police and the community.
• Share information with Humberside Police and engage with the Rural Task Force, Neighbourhood Policing Teams and local farm/country/horse watch schemes.
• Attend any community events and promote the role and raise awareness of equine and rural related crime.
• Update Duty Sheet with volunteer hours and activities.
• Attend and complete relevant training for the role.

What the role requires:

• Own, or have access to a suitable horse to undertake mounted rural patrols.
• An interest in preventing Rural, Equine and Wildlife Crime.
• Attained the British Horse Society Ride Safe Award or be willing to undertake it.
• Minimum five years of riding experience which includes both riding on a highway and rural (open farmland/bridleways etc).
• Willing to undertake an induction and horse/equipment checks as required.

Want to know more? Trot along to our open vacancies page for more information and details on how to apply.

FAQs:

Will the scheme be available in other areas of the Humberside region?

Applications are currently only open to Hull and East Riding for Phase 1 of the scheme.  They will open for North and North East Lincolnshire soon. Watch this space.

Will I be expected to challenge behaviour?

The role is completed during a normal day-to0day hack on your horse on a ‘see it, report it’ basis.

Riders must not ever challenge behaviour directly or become involved in conflict. 

Will I be covered by Police Insurance?

All police volunteers and their horses are covered by police insurance whilst completing a duty.

What equipment will you provide?

We will provide you with high visibility clothing for you and your horse and a two-way hat camera, plus First Aid training and all mounted Volunteers will compete the British Horse Society ‘Ride Safe Award.’

Why is the British Horse Society 'Ride Safe Award' needed?

It is so we can ensure all our riders have a high standard of road safety awareness. 

Please note we have now closed for applications for the first phase of the Community Safety Mounted Volunteer scheme. We will reopen for applications for the next phase in a few months.

In the meantime, if you would like any further information about the scheme, please email [email protected]