Guest Speaker.

The police presentation was highlighted with the police dog Jag. The function of the dog squad is to assist the regular duty officers in the policing tasks. There are 18 dogs on the VPD. They are used to track people,bomb detection, gun detection and to flush out suspects from buildings. They cover the entire city when on duty. When off duty they live with their handler & his or her family. The cost to train a dog is about $ 65,000.They do frequent additional training. The dogs remain in service up to 13 years. When the dog retires he lives with the officer & his or her family. Notes taken this week by Jim MacKinnon.