Very few job interviews last four weeks and involve watching football matches. But for a police horse in the making this is an important part of the recruitment process.
There are 43 police forces across England and Wales and 11 of those have a mounted section.
South Yorkshire Police’s Mounted Section is one of those and was established, records would suggest, in the early 1900s.

There are currently 10 police horses and 12 riders stabled at Ring Farm, a former dairy farm that the police acquired in the 1980s.