Monterey County Sheriff's Mounted Unit

03/14/2025

Farm Day in Monterey was a bit wet last week, but we toughed it out and enjoyed talking with all the students. Monterey County Farm Bureau

01/05/2025

Happy New Year!

We went out to Fort Ord today to get the horses some exercise to build up their endurance and a little sensory with the bikes, bridges, and GOATS!

We also spotted from our high vantage point a vehicle key lying on the trail. We collected it and later found the owner stranded in the parking lot. They were very happy to get their key back so they could go home.

We look forward to seeing y’all in 2025!

10/28/2024

Our Rural Mounted Course at Lake San Antonio this weekend was a huge success!

The students learned equitation, sensory, mapping skills, patient extractions, search patterns, crime scene investigations, tracking and enjoyed the great sunrises and sunsets.

We would like to thank everyone that attended the course, and Western States Mounted Officers Association for allowing us to host this course.

10/27/2024

Thank you Greenfield FFA for helping serve a steak dinner to our class students.

10/27/2024

We celebrated National Mule Day today by learning how to pack out injured patients.

10/24/2024

We have been busy prepping the arena and grounds for the past few days. Today we are starting our Rural Mounted Class with Western States Mounted Officers Association today!

10/06/2024

Our unit recently attended Mounted School in Temecula with Western States Mounted Officers Association.

One of our deputies and horses attended the Update course, a second attended the Instructor course, and two taught the Basic course to other agencies from across California and Arizona.

Our unit learned a lot during the week and connected with many other Mounted Units across the nation.

09/22/2024

We only have a few more open spots left in our Rural mounted course next month. If you are interested, get signed up!

The Monterey County Sheriff’s Office Mounted Unit, in collaboration with WSMOA, is hosting a 35-hour Rural Mounted Training Course in October.

This course is geared towards rural Mounted Officers, Deputies, and volunteers. The course will focus on equitation, search and rescue, navigation, and equine first aid.

Current WSMOA membership is required to attend.

09/21/2024

Our unit completed an overnight search and rescue training alongside the Monterey County Sheriff's Office Search and Rescue team last weekend. We practiced GPS waypoint training, grid searches on horseback, and exposed the horses to CHP - Air Operations lifting people overhead.

08/31/2024

Yesterday, we helped San Jose Police Department honor the life of CSO Long Pham, who was killed by a drunk driver earlier this month.