{"id":682193,"date":"2026-01-08T12:31:28","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T12:31:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/682193\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T12:31:28","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T12:31:28","slug":"new-police-horse-bess-joins-west-yorkshire-mounted-section","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/682193\/","title":{"rendered":"New police horse Bess joins West Yorkshire Mounted Section"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  The Shire cross named Bess passed their initial trial period for the force&#8217;s mounted section with flying colours.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Bess has come all the way from Wales, demonstrating a &#8220;laid-back attitude to life&#8221;.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Their progress in his development programme means they will be a fully operational Police Horse.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Once registered, Bess will support officers in tasks like proactive stop checks, gathering intelligence, making arrests, and policing busy events such as football matches.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Until then, Bess is out on patrol across the region as their training continues.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  They encourage people to give them a wave if spotted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Shire cross named Bess passed their initial trial period for the force&#8217;s mounted section with flying colours.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":682194,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8814],"tags":[748,393,4884,1860,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-682193","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-leeds","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-leeds","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115859494260664023","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=682193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682193\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/682194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=682193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=682193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=682193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}