This is a very short video clip of fairly poor quality due to the ‘autofocus’ being too ‘auto’.
It aims to give just a taste of what a hiding criminal sees when found by a searching Police Dog.
The clip starts with the ‘criminal’ climbing up a tree to hide. You will then hear me ‘challenge’ “Police Officer with a dog etc.” You will also hear Acco ‘speak’. When the criminal doesn’t give up Acco is deployed to search and soon locates the offender and indicates his find by barking.
When this exercise is done ‘for real’ it is not unknown for the criminal to be so spooked by the barking that they lose their grip and fall from the tree. This often happens at night when the first indication they get that the dog has located them is the sudden outburst of barking from the base of the tree.
As with all of these clips it is very early in Acco’s training As he became more experienced I trained him to use a chainsaw so that if the offender wouldn’t leave the tree he could deal with them on his own! Oh alright, I made that bit up!
The biting bits will be here soon.