{"id":4913,"date":"2020-11-18T10:03:11","date_gmt":"2020-11-18T10:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goc2020.govmu.org\/policenew\/?page_id=4913"},"modified":"2020-11-20T09:32:52","modified_gmt":"2020-11-20T09:32:52","slug":"police-dog-section","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/police.govmu.org\/police\/?page_id=4913","title":{"rendered":"Police Dog Section"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"4913\" class=\"elementor elementor-4913\" data-elementor-post-type=\"page\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-a484d52 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"a484d52\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-9f14f69\" data-id=\"9f14f69\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-15426e5 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"15426e5\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">History<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-0c43b10 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"0c43b10\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-d9db2d8\" data-id=\"d9db2d8\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-9b1edc9 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"9b1edc9\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>The Police Dog Unit formerly known as the Police Dog Training Centre was set up in 1952. Late Inspector Picot, after having successfully attended a course in dog handling in England returned with two trained Alsatian dogs \u201cKim\u201d and \u201cRustler\u201d. They were inducted at the Police Training School.<\/p><p>Later retired Inspector Fayd\u2019herbe introduced another she-pup named \u201cLinda\u201d which was trained at the Police Training School. Since then, The Mauritius Police Kennel breeds its own dogs.<\/p><p>In 1965, the kennel was transferred to the Special Mobile Force (SMF).<\/p><p><strong>Role of the Police Dog Unit<\/strong><\/p><p>Police dogs play a vital part in today\u2019s operational policing role. Some dogs are trained as drug sniffers to perform searches for dangerous drugs, others are trained to carry out the following duties:<\/p><ul><li>Watching and warding<\/li><li>Tracking<\/li><li>Searching<\/li><li>Identification<\/li><li>Discovery<\/li><li>Arrest<\/li><li>Guarding<\/li><li>Escort<\/li><li>Protection<\/li><li>Crowd control at football matches, meetings and places of public entertainment<\/li><li>Foot patrol<\/li><\/ul>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>History The Police Dog Unit formerly known as the Police Dog Training Centre was set up in 1952. Late Inspector Picot, after having successfully attended a course in dog handling in England returned with two trained Alsatian dogs \u201cKim\u201d and \u201cRustler\u201d. They were inducted at the Police Training School. Later retired Inspector Fayd\u2019herbe introduced another &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/police.govmu.org\/police\/?page_id=4913\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Police Dog Section<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5046,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"disabled","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4913","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/police.govmu.org\/police\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/police.govmu.org\/police\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/police.govmu.org\/police\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/police.govmu.org\/police\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/police.govmu.org\/police\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4913"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/police.govmu.org\/police\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5094,"href":"https:\/\/police.govmu.org\/police\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4913\/revisions\/5094"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/police.govmu.org\/police\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/police.govmu.org\/police\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/police.govmu.org\/police\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/police.govmu.org\/police\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}