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Here I am back home after three weeks in Australia mainly spent on the Sunshine Coast, Queensland north of Brisbane. For those of you who’ve done the trip you’ll know just how far it is and what a huge country Australia is. I went with my wife Rosemary and we visited her sister and family who moved out there almost five years ago. The hotel we [... continue reading 'Australia'] A video clip of a practical police dog tracking exercise ending in a bite and some very bad acting. The scenario is as follows. An offender has been disturbed tampering with vehicles and breaking into a garage. The victim calls Police and I attend with Acco. On our arrival I speak to the aggrieved and get as much information as possible about the offender, what he [... continue reading 'Police Dog Training 6, Tracking, Catching & Biting a Burglar'] I told you we’d get to some biting so here it is. This clip was shot on the end of course test for Acco. It is the ‘manwork’ element of the test and comprises four exercises. 1) The Stand-off or Stand-out. In this exercise a running suspect is challenged by the handler and when he doesn’t stop the dog is sent to detain him, note that Acco [... continue reading 'Police Dog Training 5, Manwork (Biting)'] 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 [... continue reading 'Police Dog Training 4, Hiding up a tree'] Here we are again, another video clip, this time with a look at agility. It is vital that a Police Dog can deal with any obstacles in his way when working. He may go over or under, around it or through it whichever is the most effective. If a criminal is hiding behind a fence the dog wants to join him as quickly as possible. My attention was drawn to this story from America involving two burglary suspects who were upset because a Police Dog was used to detain them. It must have very traumatic for them (I hope). Read the story:- http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/newyork/ny-bc-ny–policedoglawsuit0728jul28,0,2519349.story?coll=ny-region-apnewyork http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime_file/2007/07/28/2007-07-28_jury_nips_nypd_dogbite_suit.html http://allpawsbulletin.blogspot.com/2007/07/police-dog-dj-in-court.html This story got me thinking of violent and non compliant criminals that I’ve dealt with over the years. As with the above story almost without exception offenders, with no [... continue reading 'It’s Not Fair. I Was Only Doing A Burglary!'] Welcome to this video clip, the second in an ongoing series. This one features an exercise known as the ‘Long Down’ and is without doubt the least action filled of any in the series. I thought I’d get the bits that appear boring out of the way first. The purpose of the exercise is to allow a handler to leave his dog in the down (the [... continue reading 'Police Dog Training 2 The Long Down'] This post is the first in a series of short video clips of me training Police Dog ‘ACCO’ back in 1984. The quality is not great, it was shot on VHS throughout the course and includes rare footage of me with hair. A client kindly put the tape, which was showing it’s age, onto DVD for me. The clip in this segment shows Acco walking to [... continue reading 'Police Dog Training, Heelwork and Distance Control'] |
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