IDEAL POLICE DOG
BEST DETECTIVE BREED Three years of training, field trials and cross-breeding experiments have produced what is thought to be the ideal police dog, which the Home Office may shortly recommend for man-hunting, detective duties, liaison work and night patrols on lonely country beats. Two bloodhounds imported from America have each produced litters at the Home Office experimental training school at Washwater, near Newbury. To secure dogs with more stamina the bloodhounds were crossed with otter hounds, and the puppies are reported to show good pace and drive on a cold scent. As yet, Labradors, used by Colonel Llewellyn, Chief Constable of Wiltshire, have proved themselves the best detective breed and the most reliable for carrying messages between constable and police station. Their ability to give warning of unseen strangers on a dark beat, to nose out a man like a pheasant or rabbit, to “comb” shrubberies and undergrowth and “report” suspicious finds have singled out the Labrador as the finest dog sleuth. In defending himself or his master, the police dog is taught discipline. On no account is “snappiness” encouraged.
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Thames Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 20288, 13 April 1938, Page 4
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183IDEAL POLICE DOG Thames Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 20288, 13 April 1938, Page 4
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