New Search Dogs for Scottish Police Force

Mon, 30 Jul 2007

The latest recruits of a Scottish police force are six newborn cocker spaniel puppies who will train as search dogs.

Officer have installed a camera in the puppies kennels to monitor their progress and broadcast live pictures from the dog unit.

With the launch of the Webcam, the public can log on to the Strathclyde Police's website to view the live footing of the puppies, which will be updated every 15 minutes.

Izzy, the three old cocker spaniel is the mother of the newborn. She gave birth to the four girls and two boys on 25 June.

Inspector Alan Davis, of the Scottish Police Dog Training Centre, said, "Strathclyde Police runs a unique in-house dog breeding programme and whilst this litter is the sixth to be produced since the initiative began in 2002, the new pups are the first litter of specialist search dogs to be born."

"Cocker spaniels are used in specialist areas such as drugs, explosives, weapons or cash detection and victim recovery work."

"Of the 35 pups born into the programme so far, 25 have gone on to become fully fledged police dogs working throughout the force area."

"I believe that this is the first time a UK force has taken on a Webcam project and I hope that it will be as successful and draw as many hits, if not more, than the popular ‘name the puppy’ competition we have run over the last three years."

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