Thursday, 9 May 2013

The prison dogs talk with Bedford prison



The talk was really good with Mr Brotheridge the prison dog hander giving us a demonstration of what the dogs can actually do. The meeting was an informal meeting with the speaker talking about what prison life is really like and how they always have to up there game to make sure that no drugs, alcohol and mobile phones/ sim cards are smuggled into the prison, he also talked about all the risks with being a dog handler in a prison with being followed by prisoners families and trying to hurt the dogs. It was incredible to see the dogs (Tyler and poacher) work with finding the sim and mobile which hadn’t been used in years and the battery disconnected in less than a minute. The speaker also made it interactive with using one of our members as a decoy with placing a pad with less than a milligram of a drug on it with the dog finding it straight away. All in all a total cracking meeting.
Emma (Programme sec) 

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