"Shame there weren't any tablets," an otherwise satisfied customer concluded as the crowd patrolled out at the end; otherwise he didn't have much to complain about.
Mounted police have been used since the 18th century, and still are used worldwide to control traffic and crowds, patrol public parks, keep order in processionals and during ceremonies and perform general street patrol duties.
Crowd controllers patrolled the lines with sticks and homemade whips.
However, another Paris police source told The Telegraph there was no shortage of security forces in the city on New Year's, since added riot police were brought in from out of town to patrol crowded areas like the Champs-Elysées, where some 300,000 people celebrated on Monday night.
Suspects flee before officers arrive"), the story charts the growing infatuation between two patrol partners ("Crowd control progresses smoothly. Officer [Shield #325] musses hair clobbering balky demonstrator. A scrawny little hank slips loose, nestles against her right cheek, framing the side of her face like an open parenthesis").
On its canvas, another crowd is amassing: a patrol of guardsmen readying their arms, their vigilant faces peering out of the shadows.
They will be inspecting deliveries while New Jersey state police dogs patrol the crowds.
Doctors, paramedics and emergency medical technicians staffed five medical tents and patrolled the crowd, and more than a dozen ambulances were on site, Ms. Wood said.
Taliban authorities in their clean white turbans could be seen on the other side, patrolling the crowd with thick black and white batons and Kalashnikov rifles.
Yet an armored Iraqi Humvee was close by, soldiers with AK-47s patrolled the crowd, and a soldier was stationed on the roof of Mr. Allawi's home, peering at the crowd from behind the barrel of a machine gun.
