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K-9 Team
The canine's ability may be demonstrated for any interested group. Children enjoy watching the police dog perform fascinating feats, and many see him as a hero that catches the bad guy.
The canine's superior detection ability enables the canine handler to conduct thorough and complete searches with minimal time and personnel.
A dog can always outrun a man, and the fear of being bitten often works in favor of the pursuers. The canine is trained to pursue a fleeing subject. All canines are trained for recall when pursuing a subject. Should the subject stop and surrender, the dog is not allowed to bite and is recalled to heel.
Patrol trained dogs are sometimes better than bloodhounds for criminal pursuit purposes, since they afford the handler a margin of protection. Their training includes specific instructions to prevent anyone from harming their handler. Bloodhounds provide virtually no protection for their handler, yet will usually trail for a much longer period of time and may be used effectively on a "cold trail". If weather and other conditions allow, a two-week-old trail is not out of the question for a well-trained bloodhound.
The canine is trained to search and find explosives in buildings,vehicles, and many other areas. Dogs trained in this discipline are not cross trained in narcotics work as narcotic sniffing dogs scratch their finds and scratching a bomb may detonate it.
Generally the dog may be utilized under the same conditions as an officer would use his baton or other non-lethal weapon. The canine handler may allow his dog to bite if the handler or dog is assaulted, to stop a felon from escaping, or to prevent a subject from injuring another citizen.
The police service dog teams are able to:
