Post Title: Police Constable, Mounted Branch
Type of contract: Permanent
Rank/Grade: PC
Directorate/Department: Local Policing – Taskforce – Mounted Branch
Statement of expectation for the role: 2 year
Vetting level required: RV/CTC
Location: Hybrid Working - Predominantly based at Central London Stables (previously Great Scotland Yard however subject to relocation throughout 2026)
Weekly requirements to attend training/outer stables – Address: The Stockyard, Bushy Park Hampton Court Road, TW12 2EJ
*whilst the relocation of an Inner London Stables is completed officers will be required to parade from Bushy Park.
Salary: According to National Payscales plus Allowances
As City of London Police, we protect the people, businesses and infrastructure of the City of London, one of the most important and dynamic environments in the UK and globally. City of London Police is the smallest home office force area in the country, so does that make our job any less challenging? Absolutely not – because there’s so much going on.
City of London Police play a vital role in keeping the City of London diverse community safe. As a Police Officer you will be helping to making the city safer and deliver a valued service for those that live, work and visit the City.
Role Purpose:
Mounted constables are responsible for providing a unique Policing resource with heightened response and public engagement value, building public trust and confidence in supporting Policing activities. This includes ceremonial events, responding to incidents, maintaining public order, preventing and detecting crime.
The City of London Mounted Branch unit is currently in a phase of ambitious growth to return it to a fully operational Mounted Branch PSU which includes the locating, purchasing and training of new potential police horses as well as relevant training for all officers.
Key Accountabilities:
- Maintain the highest standards of welfare of police horses, ensuring the best possible levels of care and turnout. To assist with the ongoing training of all police horses, with the potential, upon completion of the intermediate qualification, to work with trainers to introduce remounts to the City.
- Patrol communities, as directed, in response to high profile incidents or ongoing high volumes of criminal activity, providing public reassurance and the prevention and detection of crime.
- Police public order and ceremonial events, responding to risks, threats and incidents in line with operational tasking; to ensure public order, to prevent criminal activity and to safeguard the public and colleagues .
- Gather and handle information and intelligence from a range of sources, in line with legislation, policies and guidance, taking appropriate action to support investigations, law enforcement and criminal justice proceedings.
- Manage conflict by taking control where appropriate, taking account of personal and public safety and horse welfare to ensure that situations are handled in a safe and proportionate manner.
- Interact with members of the public, local businesses and partners; to support the delivery of a visible and interactive Police Service. Support community events
- Develop and maintain equitation and public order skill set, to retain National competency level for Mounted Officer, and to develop / enhance personal performance within the team.
Statement of expectation for the role:
This is a full time PC post within the Mounted Branch.
Essential Criteria:
- Applicants must currently hold a valid NPCC Standard Equitation Certificate (SEC).
- Knowledge of horse care, welfare, and stable management
- Experience riding in busy/public environments (roads, events, crowds)
- Applicants must have successfully passed the Job‑Related Fitness Test (JRFT) (currently the 5.7 level bleep test) prior to appointment.
- Candidates must be willing to undertake Mounted Branch Public Order Training.
- Experience in public order policing (Level 2 PSU trained) or equivalent
- Successful candidates will be expected to undertake training to obtain their HGV licence in order to maintain the unit’s capability to drive the City of London Police horsebox as required by operational demands.
Desirable Criteria
- Intermediate Rider
- National Mounted Police Instructor
- HGV – Category C Driving qualification
- Level 2 Public Order
Applicants who are successful during paper-sift will be required to attend a 1-day riding suitability assessment at Bushy Park to assess suitability for immediate posting.
The application and interview will be tested under Level 1 of the College of Policing Competency and Values Framework. (max 500 words)
- We take ownership
- We are emotionally aware
- We are collaborative
Applicants who fail to address the skills/knowledge/experience of the job role will not be considered.
If you would like to discuss the post in more detail, please contact: Inspector Joe Bailey – Joe.bailey@cityoflondon.police.uk or PS Richard Bushell – Richard.Bushell@cityoflondon.police.uk
The closing date for applications is Thursday 23rd July 2026 @ 11.59PM.
This vacancy is open only to those who have the right to work in the UK.
The City of London Police is keen to promote flexible working and will, subject to operational policing requirements, proactively consider all applications to work flexibly.
The City of London Police is committed to equal opportunities and welcomes applications from all sections of the community.
We strive to ensure all our information and services are accessible to and useable by everyone. If you would like to receive any information in a different way or would like us to do anything differently to help you apply for our roles, please get in touch with HR via hrservices@cityoflondon.police.uk.
Benefits:
* In return, we will offer a number of benefits including a generous pension scheme, a free Oyster card for London (TFL) travel and subsidised national rail travel, which allows you to travel within a 70 mile radius. For further information please visit:
https://careers.cityoflondon.police.uk/working
The ATOC Rail Travel Concession allows regular serving police officers to travel on National Rail services within a 70 mile radius of London for a small monthly cost. This is a taxable benefit that the City of London Police negotiates and Officers make a contribution to the cost of the scheme. If you wish to confirm if your journey would be covered under this scheme, please contact HR Services directly as the 70 miles is an approximation. *
A diverse workforce improves the service we provide to our public by making us more approachable and relevant within our communities. This is why it’s vitally important that we recruit people from a wide range of communities and backgrounds with an understanding of cultural issues and a wide range of skills. We therefore particularly encourage female and people from Black, Asian and other Minority Ethnic communities to join us.
The way we work is changing. With a few exceptions most roles will be able to accommodate part time, job share and flexible working patterns. We can also offer hybrid working patterns of home and office based shift patterns. Feel free to speak to us about any flexible working requirements.
The Force has a number of Staff Support Networks that can offer you support and advice. Applicants are very welcome to contact the networks directly if they need any support or ask any question before they apply. For further information on the networks and their contact details please visit:
