The NSW Mounted Police Unit celebrated its 200th anniversary today with a street parade in Sydney from Hyde Park Barracks to the Opera House. It is the oldest continuously serving mounted police unit in the world, predating London's Metropolitan Police Mounted Branch (1828) and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (1863). The unit currently is made up of 35 officers, 31 troop horses and employs 10 full-time grooms at their stables in Redfern. Get the news that matters to you straight from the sourc

The NSW Mounted Police Unit celebrated its 200th anniversary today with a street parade in Sydney from Hyde Park Barracks to the Opera House. It is the oldest continuously serving mounted police unit in the world, predating London's Metropolitan Police Mounted Branch (1828) and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (1863). The unit currently is made up of 35 officers, 31 troop horses and employs 10 full-time grooms at their stables in Redfern. #ABCNewsNSW #NSWPolice #Sydney | ABC Sydney