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["Lynda" <lurine AT com-pair.net>]

All fingers and toes crossed.  

Lynda
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "EarthNSky" <erthnsky AT gmail.com>
> 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.