Dog Squad Duties
In India, the National Security Guard inducted the Belgian Malinois into its K-9 Unit, Border Security Force, and Central Reserve Police Force use Rajapalayam as guard dogs to support the Force on the borders of Kashmir.
For regional security, the Police has recruited many of the city’s street dogs to be trained for security purposes. The Police uses German Shepherds, Labrador Retrievers, and the Indian pariah dog in its bomb-sniffing squad.
General Purpose Dog is trained to perform
multiple functions which include obedience and agility exercises to
build partnership skills. These are important functions as handlers must
maintain control over their dogs at all times.
General purpose dogs skills are used in
many situations such as tracking (following a person’s scent) to find
offenders and missing people if they are moving on foot. They are
equipped with an excellent sense of smell making them invaluable for
searching buildings, enclosed areas and bushland. Here the dog searches
for scent drifting in the air and follows it to locate a person. Their
sense of smell is also used for searching an area for recently discarded
property or evidence. Other duties include assisting with the control
of crowds which may threaten the safety of the general public.
Specialist police dogs are trained to
perform specific tasks requiring precise training. Teams from the Drug
Detection Unit of the Dog Squads are trained to search for dangerous
drugs including Cocaine, Amphetamines, Heroin, Ecstasy and Cannabis.
These handler/dog teams can be used for interior and exterior searching
of dwellings, vehicles and vessels.
The Police dogs have a great life. At the
end of the shift the dog is taken home with the handler and spends their
time off with the handler and their family. The dog and handler work
exclusively as a team from start to finish which makes it easy to
understand how they become very attached to each other. The dogs receive
the very best attention, food and veterinary care to ensure their
health and happiness throughout their lives.
At the conclusion of their working life
the ‘retired’ police dogs can sit back and relax as an everyday back
yard dog. Handlers generally retain their police dogs throughout their
old age.
