A new batch of 10 young dogs and their handlers have been sent to the Indo Tibetan Border Police Force (ITBP) training centre at Panchkula, Haryana for training. The dogs and their handlers were flagged off by ADGP (Administration) Ram Singh Meena from Dehradun on Sunday. The dog squad of the State police is expected to work more efficiently after its new members are trained in their varied tasks.
DGP BS Sidhu had inspected the police dog squad some months ago and had found that the dogs in the police squad were unable to do their tasks efficiently due to old age or illness.
Following the DGP’s orders to purchase new dogs, the Uttarakhand Police procured 10 dogs, including five German Shepherds and five labrador retrievers.
The ADGP flagged off the 10 dogs and their 20 selected handlers for training on Sunday. According to police sources, from Monday the dogs and their handlers will undergo nine months training in search and rescue work and six months training as trackers and sniffing out narcotics and explosives.
These dogs include male labrador Bruno allocated to Pithoragarh district for explosive search, labrador male Jordan allotted to Nainital for explosive search, female German Shepherd lucy allotted to Nainital as a tracker, female labrador Roxy allotted to Udham Singh Nagar for explosive search, female German Shepherd Katie allotted to Udham Singh Nagar as a tracker, female German Shepherd Daisy allotted to Haridwar as a tracker, female labrador Sophie allotted to Dehradun for explosive search, female labrador Jenny allotted to Dehradun for narcotics search, male German Shepherd Striker allotted to the State Disaster Response Force for search and rescue work and male German Shepherd Dustin also allotted to the SDRF for search and rescue work.