K-9 Police Units (Crime Scene Investigations)

Cover......Page 1
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
Foreword......Page 7
“I Was Practically Airborne”......Page 9
“That’s Exactly What We Want”......Page 10
“The Coolest Thing Ever”......Page 12
Four-Legged Imports......Page 14
“Now There’s a Cool Dog”......Page 16
“I Told Him I Wasn’t Really Interested”......Page 18
The Demands of a Handler......Page 20
Training Day......Page 22
“That’s What We Train For”......Page 24
The Bite......Page 26
Making It Real......Page 27
Nothing but Praise, No Compulsion......Page 29
The Nose Knows......Page 33
“He Would Have Driven Away with All His Dope”......Page 35
“He Was Like a Five-Year-Old at the Park”......Page 37
“Check, Check, Check”......Page 39
No Limit......Page 40
Getting Around Distracters......Page 42
Coffee Grounds and Liquid Tide......Page 43
False Positives......Page 44
“The Whole Thing Is a Game”......Page 45
“It’s a Learning Process”......Page 48
Trust the Dog......Page 50
Probable Cause......Page 52
Learning to Track......Page 55
The Call......Page 56
Reading the Tracking Dog......Page 59
How It Ends......Page 61
“Tyke Really Knocked Me offMyFeet”......Page 62
In the Kill Zone......Page 65
Sweat, Fear, and Cover Officers......Page 67
Sending the Dog......Page 69
SWAT Operations......Page 70
Leapfrog......Page 73
Darkness and Noise......Page 74
A Risk......Page 75
“He’s One of the Brothers and Sisters of the Department”......Page 76
“Let’s Go to Work, Rook”......Page 77
Intense Training......Page 79
Traveling Scent......Page 81
“You Are Just Grateful You’re There”......Page 82
Looking for a Boy Scout......Page 83
Success—and Gloating......Page 84
Another Kind of Find......Page 85
From Missing to Crime Victim......Page 88
“They Are Still Somebody’s Children”......Page 90
The Pile......Page 91
Grueling Work......Page 93
Better and Better......Page 95
Notes......Page 96
Glossary......Page 99
For More Information......Page 100
Index......Page 101
Picture Credits......Page 104
About the Author......Page 105
Back Cover......Page 106