Dog Squad

Use of Dogs in Police Work

The dog's active sense of smell, sight and hearing have a decisive advantage over the human agencies and are put to use for assisting the Police in a variety of investigations and search operations. Dogs could be used with substantial success in tracking the criminals after a crime has been committed and in searching premises to locate criminals. Dogs could be used for recovering articles stolen, searching of missing persons and for patrolling, Explosives and Narcotic detection and VIP and VVIP security.

Now dog squads are there in all the 14 districts with City and Rural sub units at Thiruvananthapuram, Ernakulam and Kozhikode. Department is strengthening the dog squad with more number of dogs and sub units. The handlers along with the dogs undergoes very rigorous and detailed training for 9 months. Some handlers had been trained in BSF and one person has exposure to USA Dog squad through a government programme. Department has started full fledged State Dog Training School along with Kerala Police Academy, Thrissur where the 9 months training is imparted by internal and external faculties.

Dog Squard In Kasaragod District

Two Dogs are there in Kasaragod District Police Dog squad.

1. Tracker

2. Sniffer explosive

Achievements

  • Kerala Police Duty meet 2012 held at Thiruvanathapuram Kasaragod Police dog Alex won Gold Medal (Tracker).
  • Kerala Police Duty meet 2014 held at KEPA, Thrissur Kasaragod Police dog Tiffy won Bronze medal (Sniffer)
  • Kerala Police Duty meet 2015 held at KEPA, Thrissur Kasaragod Police dog Tiffy won Silver medal (Sniffer)
Last updated on Saturday 11th of June 2022 PM