Rita Meredith enjoys a special monent with police horse Hollywood and Constable Nicole Harvell. © NSW Police Force
By Equestrian Life
The first female Mounted Police Officer in the UK has been visited at her hospice by the NSW Mounted police unit.
Rita Meredith is currently very unwell and is not expected to leave the hospice in Newcastle, but her final wish was to ‘smell or see a horse for one more time’.
When Rita was in her early 20’s, she was a Police Officer in the United Kingdom. After 2 years of service, she decided to try the Mounted Police and became the first female to do so in the UK in 1967.
Rita shattered the glass ceiling when she become the UK’s first female mounted police officer in 1967, and she even met the Queen Mother pictured above. © Meredith Family
A friend of Rita’s reached out to the NSW Police Force, asking if they could help fulfil this special horsewoman’s dying wish.
On Tuesday, Rita was visited by Mounted Police horses Hollywood and Don with Senior Constable Graham Lovett and Constable Nicole Harvell.
Rita Meredith received her dying wish to smell and see another horse one last time. © NSW Police Force
In a post on the Mounted Unit – NSW Police Force Facebook page, it was said that Hollywood and Don made Rita’s day.
“There were plenty of tears shed and beautiful memories made,” it read.
Senior Constable Graham Lovett and police horse, Don, vistied Rita Meredith and her son and daughter-in law Robert Parnaby and Emily Sykes. © NSW Police Force
Source: NSW Police Force
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