Speaker 1: It's time for our favorite segment.
Speaker 2: Lawrence, tell me what you know?
Speaker 3: Yes, proper. We are big fans of the Victorian police
Speaker 3: and we've got.
Speaker 4: The cuts police officer we've ever seen. Touching it can't
Speaker 4: stop playing.
Speaker 3: Please don't touch him. His name is Senior Sergeant Mark Boyson.
Speaker 2: Mark, here you go go.
Speaker 4: We are excellent, also very handsome. Mark has brought with
Speaker 4: him Riggs, puppy police dog.
Speaker 2: Is it true?
Speaker 4: Twelve we called German shepherd.
Speaker 1: Has Riggs been named after leitha weapon? Riggs and Merton?
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's true, he's Yes.
Speaker 5: We give the handlers an opportunity to come up with
Speaker 5: some names and we sort of victim and see how
Speaker 5: we go.
Speaker 2: And hear that went past the.
Speaker 4: Master Riggs in the studio.
Speaker 1: Guys, we got a.
Speaker 6: Situation could be so okay, So Riggs in, when does
Speaker 6: he start training? He's twelve weeks.
Speaker 5: Well he started now effectively, but it's more with his age.
Speaker 5: It's more about the environmental training and making sure he
Speaker 5: stands up to those sort of rigors that we want
Speaker 5: him to show when he finally gets operational down the track,
Speaker 5: which would probably be we're not looking for him to
Speaker 5: be a police dog. For another twelve fourteen, sixteen months
Speaker 5: even it just depends on how that development goes. And yeah,
Speaker 5: so there's a lot of development happening now.
Speaker 4: Though what sort of thing will he be sniffing out?
Speaker 4: Is he like an attack dog?
Speaker 2: Not that we don't call him that, no, but no,
Speaker 2: definitely not. He's a tracking dog.
Speaker 5: So he'll be used on frontline policing for general purpose
Speaker 5: work we call it. So that'll be tracking for criminals effectively,
Speaker 5: and we'll train him to look for people. It could
Speaker 5: also be a searching at this scenario for missing people,
Speaker 5: could also be for subduing.
Speaker 2: We've just got to know.
Speaker 5: The facts are that sometimes the scenarios where we need
Speaker 5: the dog for seat scenarios top.
Speaker 1: Safe Clint's committed a crime.
Speaker 3: Believable hypothetical, I give you something of Clint's to sniff, like.
Speaker 4: His hat, for example, is that what they do do they.
Speaker 5: Sense a bit of There are dogs that do sense
Speaker 5: discriminate like that, and so that's probably a lot of
Speaker 5: what you see with bloodhounds and things like that. And
Speaker 5: so no, it's about we do know that they send
Speaker 5: discriminate to a point, but it's about most recent human sense.
Speaker 5: So that initial imprinting is about understanding human sense. So
Speaker 5: the dog will will just basically scuff the ground whence
Speaker 5: the dog indicates that they get a little reward and
Speaker 5: it develops from there in terms of to a track.
Speaker 3: Now indicating PCs Clint outside down down the street right,
Speaker 3: and you're like, that's our crim Do you let him
Speaker 3: off the lead and can he bring Clint down?
Speaker 5: Hopefully that is never required, but look, the realistic nature
Speaker 5: of the job is that we do have to train the.
Speaker 2: Dogs to do those types of things.
Speaker 3: Yes, and are they taught to like do they fight
Speaker 3: or they just latch on, to latch on and hold.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: So now German shepherds are amazing because I have one
Speaker 4: growing up and it could jump over like a six
Speaker 4: meter fence. They're quite six meters seems a lot. Maybe
Speaker 4: not six, maybe like two and a half meter defence,
Speaker 4: but they're pretty amazing.
Speaker 5: And we do train them to do that. Now, we
Speaker 5: also have other breeds, but probably the good thing about
Speaker 5: the German shepherds they are all around U so to speak.
Speaker 5: They could day track, they search, they bite, they do
Speaker 5: everything we want.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no offense, I'm not scared about a beagle latching
Speaker 1: on no.
Speaker 5: But now Melian was which are Belgian shepherds. They are
Speaker 5: farm more agile, and we've got a number of them
Speaker 5: at the moment. We've probably got up towards ten at
Speaker 5: the moment, and they're becoming far more predominant now they're
Speaker 5: used in the military, etc. We've sort of moved into
Speaker 5: a number of those dogs. They've got a they're far
Speaker 5: more agile than the shepherd.
Speaker 3: Now, I'll tell you what while we've got the cops
Speaker 3: here thirteen twenty fourteen, if you have any questions for
Speaker 3: the dogs this morning thirteen twenty four ten to join
Speaker 3: us on the air. You were saying it could be
Speaker 3: sixteen months till he's fully trained. If he passes, he
Speaker 3: then becomes a fully fledged police officer. So any rules
Speaker 3: like us touching you, If we touch him, technically we've
Speaker 3: assaulted a police officer.
Speaker 2: I think what's like that with the horses too.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Well, we prefer we're very risk averse with our
Speaker 5: dogs in terms of we really you know, if someone
Speaker 5: is approaching us, if they ask, more often than not
Speaker 5: we'll say no because they were in working mode. But
Speaker 5: certainly we want dogs that are really they can be
Speaker 5: out there and we can comfortably walk them down the street.
Speaker 2: They're not just going to latch on the sorder. We don't.
Speaker 2: We really got to look at temperament. Temperament's a massive
Speaker 2: part of what we're looking for.
Speaker 1: And we were the same when building this show.
Speaker 4: We three dopey people, put them all together and see
Speaker 4: what happens?
Speaker 6: Do you do you grow attached?
Speaker 5: Oh, without question. I've had a number of dogs over
Speaker 5: the years, and and there's no doubt about it. I'm
Speaker 5: not too proud to say that I've eyes had over
Speaker 5: a couple of dogs. And you know, once because of
Speaker 5: that association, you have that your partner because we work by.
Speaker 2: Ourself, and did you get partnered up?
Speaker 5: And then you're there your dog for life? They live
Speaker 5: with us, they live with their families, come home with you.
Speaker 1: To hang on. How long would they stay in the service?
Speaker 2: For generally speaking? Can hear and growling over there?
Speaker 1: We what's he found.
Speaker 2: By protein powder around thee The probably do on average around.
Speaker 1: Eight years of service and then they retire them. Do
Speaker 1: you keep absolutely so many dogs you got at home?
Speaker 5: I've only got the one at the moment, but I'm
Speaker 5: sort of not in I'm not chasing too many dogs
Speaker 5: these days, or behind too many dogs these days, I'm
Speaker 5: leaving it to the younger men.
Speaker 1: Most cops keep keep the dogs.
Speaker 2: Or with that question, you.
Speaker 5: Couldn't give you fifty years Next year is the squad Wow,
Speaker 5: And I'm yet to see one person who's never kept
Speaker 5: their dog.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's nice, Yeah, because you would spend so much
Speaker 4: time together. I love when you see those videos about
Speaker 4: the dogs retiring and they throw them a little farewell party.
Speaker 4: I saw one of the airport dogs the other day
Speaker 4: did its last service, and they dropped from the escalators
Speaker 4: in the airport like fifty tennis balls and the dogs.
Speaker 1: You're going to say fifty dogs.
Speaker 5: Actually, that was really really I brought in a thing
Speaker 5: just recently in the last couple of years that when
Speaker 5: they do retire, we frame up a photo and a.
Speaker 2: Park and that for the dog and the handler.
Speaker 5: And I think it's really important to really acknowledge them
Speaker 5: for what they've done. I mean they've been we ask
Speaker 5: a lot of them.
Speaker 4: Yeah, absolutely, all right, thirteen twenty fourteen. If you have
Speaker 4: a question to probe the popo, there are so many
Speaker 4: calls coming through.
Speaker 1: All right, well we'll come back and take your calls
Speaker 1: on the other side of.
Speaker 4: This, we're showned by Seni Sergeant Mark Boyson from the
Speaker 4: Victoria Police dog Squad with puppy Rigs, who's a twelve
Speaker 4: week cold German shepherd that's one day going to save
Speaker 4: the world.
Speaker 1: Ding Why he got his name clipping wrong? No, I
Speaker 1: haven't done that for a couple of days. Now next time, Yeah, Lauren,
Speaker 1: have you seen Letha weapon?
Speaker 4: I have seen leath weapons. I've also seen police academy.
Speaker 2: Okay, different vary.
Speaker 1: So you have a is there a tackle berry dog
Speaker 1: on the square?
Speaker 6: Senior sergeant voice and just turned to me and said,
Speaker 6: I remember you.
Speaker 1: Oh god, what music festivals?
Speaker 6: No, no, no, we ran into each other in the
Speaker 6: World Cup soccer World Cup.
Speaker 2: Yes, that's true Russia.
Speaker 4: Is he behaving himself?
Speaker 2: He was very good actually with his film the.
Speaker 4: Second you introduced yourself with Senior Sergeant Mark Boyce, and
Speaker 4: I bet he did.
Speaker 2: It was just a coffee at the time.
Speaker 1: Hey, Mark, I just touched on music festivals there.
Speaker 3: What sort of dogs would you guys use to sniff
Speaker 3: out like firearms, narcotics?
Speaker 1: Money?
Speaker 5: Yet that they're are labradors. So we have fifteen of
Speaker 5: those and yeah, they're are detective dogs out Dubble. They're
Speaker 5: really in high demand, so on any given day of
Speaker 5: the week they're they'll be doing warrants on premises.
Speaker 2: Basically might be a stupid question.
Speaker 4: If you're a dog, you'd be a labordor Jason. You
Speaker 4: could sniff anything out bit dopertally.
Speaker 2: Wouldn't be a whippedtrror.
Speaker 1: The pastries come out here in the kitchen, Trust me,
Speaker 1: how do they know the scent?
Speaker 2: Like? Have?
Speaker 1: You got to get them around money and drugs and
Speaker 1: get them used and.
Speaker 2: It's all so odor recognition and it's just repetition.
Speaker 5: So you introduce an odor to them, you can get
Speaker 5: them to find, you know, whatever it is, and you
Speaker 5: just keep introducing that odor, and once they give you
Speaker 5: that impression that they've understood it, they're rewarded, and it's
Speaker 5: just it's compounding from there. You continuously introduce that odor,
Speaker 5: have that oidor present and they order and they understand
Speaker 5: it over time.
Speaker 1: And firearms have an odor.
Speaker 5: Absolutely, so you've got obviously it's the powder itself quite obviously,
Speaker 5: and also the cleaning, the oils and these types of
Speaker 5: things there we're not specifically talking about the metal and
Speaker 5: the wood, etc.
Speaker 2: Depending on the makeup of the actual firearm. It's all
Speaker 2: the other componatory around it and.
Speaker 5: The odors that are associated with a firearm and if
Speaker 5: the firearm's been fired.
Speaker 4: The dogs are gorgeous and they do an amazing job,
Speaker 4: but are they protected at all?
Speaker 7: Do they wear protective gear?
Speaker 5: So out of general purpose dogs, they will wear a
Speaker 5: vest that basically covers the cross the chest area. It's
Speaker 5: actually a New Zealand development in this in the protection
Speaker 5: for the animal. So we do have the ability to
Speaker 5: put some panels into the sides of the vest. Yeah,
Speaker 5: to give them added protection. Absolutely, you can whistle because
Speaker 5: I can't. For certain people go to music festivals and
Speaker 5: think about putting things up there. Dogs dogs can sniff
Speaker 5: it up there.
Speaker 2: They're pretty good about them, you.
Speaker 4: Know, sniffing butts at the dog parks. I'm sure they
Speaker 4: like it.
Speaker 3: At music festival, where's the most where's the strangest plays?
Speaker 1: You've found someone trying to hide something?
Speaker 5: You might have hit on it, but yeah, that isle
Speaker 5: will try all sorts of things, so you've probably I
Speaker 5: don't know as far as your imagination can take it.
Speaker 1: Surprise.
Speaker 4: Hey, we have got many calls coming through because people
Speaker 4: love asking the police questions, let's go to Phillip Island. Colleen,
Speaker 4: good morning. Do you have a questions Mike.
Speaker 5: I'm just wanting do the dogs get to come home
Speaker 5: with you every day as part of the family, and
Speaker 5: then like you work with them every day and then
Speaker 5: when they retire.
Speaker 4: Do they get to live with you?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 5: Absolutely, And I think that's a really good part of
Speaker 5: that that bond is that mayor handlers have these dogs
Speaker 5: from early phase, like he's going on with Rigs at
Speaker 5: the moment, all the way through the career. And yes,
Speaker 5: and we're fifty years old as a squad next year,
Speaker 5: and we're really proud to say that there's not one
Speaker 5: dog in all that time that hasn't been retired to
Speaker 5: a family.
Speaker 6: Can you train that out of them? Like, because they retire,
Speaker 6: they've got to sort of settle into a retirement life.
Speaker 6: Can you actually train what you mean, if you've got
Speaker 6: a naughty uncle Christmas time, you know, all things happen
Speaker 6: at Christmas and it's really.
Speaker 5: Hard for him because it's their high drive dogs and
Speaker 5: all they want to do is get into.
Speaker 2: That car and go to work, and it is hard
Speaker 2: for some of them.
Speaker 5: Over time, they sort of wean themselves off at a bit,
Speaker 5: but you always see that glint in their eye when they.
Speaker 4: They want to go to work.
Speaker 1: My uncle's yeah, right from Geelong.
Speaker 4: Good morning. Have you got a question?
Speaker 7: Yes, I do a good minding everyone. So once this
Speaker 7: thing is your training, how long does it take actually
Speaker 7: be something sort of got the dogs and what are
Speaker 7: some of the things that you actually do to kind
Speaker 7: of get that sort of training.
Speaker 2: So Riggs is an example.
Speaker 5: He's starting off now it's more of and environmental, so
Speaker 5: making sure that he can stand up to the rigors
Speaker 5: of being basically exposed to anywhere we take him, noises
Speaker 5: and also you know in dark areas, all those.
Speaker 2: Types of things.
Speaker 4: He'storally a good job in the studio so far. He's
Speaker 4: peed once and done a pool on the carpet, so
Speaker 4: he's sitting into this environment.
Speaker 2: Yes, he shamed himself.
Speaker 1: Unfortunately it's not the first person to do it in
Speaker 1: the studio.
Speaker 5: But now we develop from there, so it's over time
Speaker 5: we just continue to build up the disciplines that we
Speaker 5: want from him. And that's mainly for him to use
Speaker 5: his nose for tracking, and it's anything that's sent bearing
Speaker 5: after that. So it's all about finding just discarded pieces
Speaker 5: of evidence. But also then we've got to obviously understand
Speaker 5: that the dog has courage. He's really got to show
Speaker 5: that as well, so the dog can respond to a
Speaker 5: number of scenarios where the expectation is he's got to
Speaker 5: protect the handler and do his job, and that could
Speaker 5: be about to subduing somebody. There's a lot involved to
Speaker 5: understand that dog from twelve weeks of ages, Riggs is
Speaker 5: we're not asking and putting him under a lot of
Speaker 5: pressure until he does hit at least twelve forteen, sixteen months.
Speaker 5: And that's why it takes so long, because you've got
Speaker 5: to really let the dog grow so speak How.
Speaker 3: Do you know when he's onto something like I've heard
Speaker 3: the dogs at the airport will sit next to the luggage.
Speaker 5: And you know what, they're all different, they're all unique
Speaker 5: in the way they do it. But as a handler,
Speaker 5: you are looking for classic indications and it's about.
Speaker 2: A bark and no barking with these dogs.
Speaker 5: It's about head movement, it's about change and in his
Speaker 5: posture and the.
Speaker 2: Way it's to you as a handler.
Speaker 5: Because we run off, we run off a long lead,
Speaker 5: so we'd be ten to fifteen meters behind the dog.
Speaker 5: He's in a harness and we're tracking along with a
Speaker 5: long lead and we're casting him across an area to
Speaker 5: try and understand or see a change of behavior.
Speaker 4: Right, that's why you have to know the dogs.
Speaker 2: So absolutely we.
Speaker 3: Won't borrow some of them for the kids at Westfield,
Speaker 3: you know when the kids run off for me at
Speaker 3: the shop. All right, Jackie in too longest to wrap
Speaker 3: things up, jack wats your question for the paper.
Speaker 7: It was just pretty much more like the training actually
Speaker 7: as the police officer, is what you need to be
Speaker 7: doing to actually be a dog handler?
Speaker 1: Like what do you go through once you go through
Speaker 1: the academy?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 5: Absolutely for what four years you were saying, we want
Speaker 5: to we want a minimum of that, and it's really
Speaker 5: just to because we're going to ask them to work
Speaker 5: on their own but out there making good decision makers.
Speaker 2: So they've got to have that really.
Speaker 5: Good background in policing and understanding of the role before
Speaker 5: we put him into this, because this is a completely
Speaker 5: different dynamic now we're asking him to perform.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Locky here is pretty fit.
Speaker 3: It is absolutely fascinating, isn't it. Yeah, we love the
Speaker 3: Victorian Police amazing this morning.
Speaker 1: Mark, You've no good job, sir.
Speaker 2: Thanks guys, thank you.
Speaker 4: Good luck Locky with your new pup that you've got
Speaker 4: on the way.
Speaker 1: He's bloody adorable, isn't he?
Speaker 4: And Riggs you're so cute.
Speaker 1: Look at that sloppy little now. I was talking about
Speaker 1: Riggs when I said he's adorable. Lucky is too. But yeah,
Speaker 1: the gonna be good.
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