Dog Section Police

They help tackle crime by detecting suspects or missing people recovering lost or stolen property and can also be extremely useful in controlling public disorder.

Dog section police. Police dog harley. Their searching ability is economical and effective covering larger and inaccessible areas. Vehicles and equipment were hard to come by for the unit and there was no uniform.

We have the second largest dog holding of any police force in the uk. Specialist search dogs. A great deal of care and thought goes into selecting dogs for police work.

All patrol dogs are german shepherds and are supplied by the police dog breeding programme that is based at. Police dog section police dogs. We would like to show you a description here but the site won t allow us.

At one point the entire dog section came within two minutes of being scrapped. Searching for missing persons tracking suspects from. They were inducted at the police training school.

The dog section we were the first force in the country to use dogs. All police dogs are trained at the police dog training centre at trentham upper hutt near wellington. Our facilities include training areas and kennels.

The department has 32 members of staff broken down into training staff operational dog handlers kennel staff and a small team that deal with dangerous and anti social dog issues. The police dog unit formerly known as the police dog training centre was set up in 1952. Today the dog section is an integral part of the new zealand police with an international reputation but the first ten years were a struggle.