Dogs Would Help Police.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18189, 23 June 1927, Page 1

Dogs Would Help Police.

WOULD BE USEFUL, TOO, IN FINDING THE LOST.

“ I am surprised they don't use dogs out here both for detecting crime and finding the los + ,” said a widely travelled Christchurch man to a “ Stax ” representative.

“ I wrote to the Minister about it two or three years ago. and gut a formal acknowledgment. T pointed out that this is a sparsely populated and dangerous country, and that there are bound to be many adventurous youths exploring it up and down, taking possession of it and enjoying it. There are continually cases where they get lost, and the only result is that do7-ns of other men are called upon to risk their lives in turn. Dog Training a Hobby. “There must be many 1 n who have dog sense, and take a great pleasure in their dogs, but have not been, able to get any public service out of them. They would be glad to train their dogs and have them at the service, of the public. “Mv attention was dfawn to it when those two men. Rollons and another, went over the Tararaus at a very unsuitable time. A search parly discovered them, but one died. Then at Otepopo there was a boy got into the scrub, and all the men of the countryside were out after him. Then a boy named Eric Palmer was lose at Wharanui, in Marlborough. Mystery Murders. “ Then there was the Wanganui murder. iii which a woman's head was battered in her own home. No one was even arrested. Belgium is the country where the use of dogs is most developed. A British officer —l think his name was Richardson—hammered away* at the English police to get them to do something, and something has been done. For instance, :i mail d.sappeared in England at about the same time as a young man disappeared at the Waitaki River some time ago. In England, despite its very dense population, bloodhounds got them right on to the track of the murderer. In New Zealand, where scents are more easily followed, nothing was done. “I am not an authority,” said the speaker in conclusion, “ but £ think the Burwood murder was a clear case for the use of dogs. The difficulty of detecting crime has greatly increased of late years, and it certainly calls for first-class brains.”