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On 11/17/2010 7:31 PM, Lynda wrote:
> I think all police forces should have seminars on this.  More and more 
> folks have diabetes and more and more people have neuro disorders that 
> cause these Alzheimerish symptoms where they "wander" off.
>
> Step one on any of these should be the SAR dogs because police dogs 
> simply are not all that well trained.

I agree that the police need education.  It seems to me that even if 
they choose or decide that they cannot take action due to the lack of 
evidence for foul play, that they should not block groups that could 
help.  The CERT team that will be searching tomorrow was actually 
contacted a week ago, and when they contacted the PD to volunteer their 
SAR services, the police told them that their services weren't needed 
because the police had everything under control.  I hope that with time 
we will learn whether or not this offer of help would have truly 
helped.   Community pressure, news stories, etc, has now made the police 
change their mind...so there was some wrangling going on behind the 
scenes and suddenly, the CERT team is available to search..

Earlier, I had intended to defend the K9 unit of the CCPD.  I am biased 
I guess since I worked in the same building with them.  I know those 
dogs came from Europe, not trained by Joe Blow, and I know they are good 
people finding dogs, (as opposed to drug dogs) but just a few moments 
ago I learned that the CCPD's dogs were specifically 'hot tracking' 
dogs, trained to find people within 20-30 minutes of their travel 
through an area.  Since those dogs were there on day 2/3, that would 
explain the lack of hits.  They must have alerted on something however, 
because the detective seemed interested in a few locations that were 
mentioned,,,,I don't know.



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