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The memorial "Faithful Partner," recently unveiled at the University of California at Davis, honors the service and sacrifice of police dogs.
Read More →Kroger and Milk-Bone have teamed to sponsor the donation of dogs to five local law enforcement canine units.
Read More →A Philadelphia police dog died after being accidentally left inside a patrol car for more than four hours with the windows up on a hot day.
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Those last four words, "evaluate a suspicious package," always make those little cop hairs on the back of your neck stand straight out like the quills on a porcupine being chased by a hungry dog.
Read More →Federal agencies are having trouble finding enough trainable canines to meet the growing demand for bomb- and drug-sniffing dogs, so they're breeding their own.
Read More →Since 1990, police dogs trained to apprehend suspects in Prince George's County (Md.) have instead attacked and mauled police officers, canine handlers and other law enforcement agents at least 43 times, according to public records and other documents.
Read More →XM division is now producing NESTT (Non-hazardous Explosives for Security Training and Testing). Developed by LLNL, the NESTT is currently used by local, state, U.S. and foreign agencies as K-9 training aids for bomb recognition dogs. XM K-9 training aids are safe, convenient and easy-to-use alternatives for canine explosive-detection training.
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Any officer who has been involved in a search for a missing victim knows that law enforcement needs every possible break. Cadaver dogs, though not likely to become widely known or ever be the subject of a television series, give cops just the break they need when searching for human remains.
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Police officers are asked to make split-second life-or-death decisions. We have to decide in a blink of an eye if we are going to shoot. Then over the next several years everyone will dissect, analyze and scrutinize our actions.
Read More →As the law enforcement community is well aware, police service dogs have proven to be a valuable tool to law enforcement over the last 15 to 20 years. The key word to this statement is "tool." Many SWAT's personnel are not aware of their K-9's capabilities in certain situations and some of the handlers have never been trained in SWAT tactics. COVER PHOTO: TERRI CAVOLI (© 1999)
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