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Police Service Dogs
196717 min 33 secFilm: Documentary
Production: Dennis Sawyer
Produced by the National Film Board of Canada for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police with footage supplied by the RCMP.
A demonstration of how police dogs are trained to respond to and obey a variety of commands, and how police officers themselves learn to employ dogs in certain types of tracking or pursuit. In the film a dog picks up the scent of a child lost in the woods and leads searchers to the rescue.
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Subject categories
- Animals > Animal Husbandry and DressageWorking Animals
- Law and Crime > Police OperationsRoyal Canadian Mounted PoliceSecurity forces
Credits
- producer
- Dennis Sawyer
- editing
- Dennis Sawyer
- narrator
- Richard Gilbert