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Police Dogs Keeping Your Family Safe
Our Mission
The Working Dog Foundation was established to ensure that communities in New Hampshire, Maine, and Massachusetts would always be able to train and care for their K-9 teams. However, as town and municipal budgets have been reduced, police and public safety departments have been forced to review their K-9 resources. As a result, budgets for training and travel to out-of-state training facilities have often been cut or eliminated.
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We are a single, trusted resource for communities and law enforcement agencies who want to maintain high-quality K-9 programs.
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In addition to locating and placing qualified dogs, the Working Dog Foundation raises funds and provides facilities for training, testing, and certifying police K-9s and their handlers.
A properly trained and handled Police K-9 is one of the best locating tools and
non-lethal aids in the prevention and detection of crime.
HELPING THE COMMUNITY
These skilled, highly trained dogs are professionals in every sense of the word, risking their lives to help make our communities safer. Police dogs possess abilities that people do not: their acute sense of smell and finely tuned hearing make them specialists in some of the most demanding jobs in law enforcement and public safety. Some of their skills include:
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- Searching buildings and areas
- Tracking down criminals
- Locating missing Alzheimer's patients, children, etc.
- Searching for dropped or hidden evidence
- Pursuing and apprehending criminals
- Narcotics and bomb detection
- Cadaver work
- and most importantly, protecting and serving the communities and officers they work in and with