Informative Essay On Dogs

Canines have been a part of law enforcement for over 100 years. Law enforcement officers train, care, and utilize service dogs to assist in criminal investigations. “They are the four-legged officers of the K-9 unit, and whether they are searching for missing children or sniffing out suspicious packages, they are part of a longstanding tradition that extends back thousands of years” (1). The first use of dogs started by the Greeks, Persians, Babylonians, and Assyrians. They began to use their dogs for searching, rescuing and guarding. As time passed people noticed how beneficial they were and started using them for protection. In 1907, the United States first K-9 officers began in New York City. The use of dogs made an impact that the British, …show more content…
Some pros to this career would be being able to have backup and protection when you fight against crime. Having protection may make you feel less worried and more confident when going out to dangerous duties. I believe canines are excellent and loyal partners that will stick by your side. I also believe that without canines it would be difficult to search for illegal items, bombs, missing people, criminals and much more. They are extremely helpful because they are very intelligent and their sense of smell is very strong. They have 125 million to 300 million scent glands depending on what breed it is. The main breed that is commonly used for this type of work has been a german shepard but police have used a labrador retriever, belgian malinois, dutch shepherd and other types of breeds. Although there was different breeds in the police force they all had a great sense of smell. This means their sense of smell is 1,000 to 10,000,000 times stronger than any human being. There sense of smell is very powerful that they can detect and search for anything they are asked to look for. This is a great benefit in law enforcement because they are doing jobs that human beings wouldn’t be able to do. If humans didn't have canine dogs to help them out, I believe it would have been a longer process because anything that has to do with crime and law enforcement can take up so much time to find out every detail of …show more content…
As we all know becoming a police officer or being part of any criminal justice branch can be at risk for danger, and having a canine dog could be very dangerous at times. Although they are great partners and are very trained, they can sometimes forget their instructions and become very aggressive when going after crime. I think that handlers have to be very careful because their dogs could sometimes make the mistake of going after the wrong person. They need to be well aware they don't bite or go after a innocent bystander. “Police canine dog bite attack expert, Richard Polsky, PhD, reviewed 30 cases of dog bite attack by a police canines on an innocent bystander” (5). All police dogs can easily make behavioral mistakes, such as attacking at the wrong time, the wrong person, a suspect when not commanded to do so, and failing to stop an attack when told to stop. This is a huge responsibility for the K-9 unit because these type of mistakes could go wrong for both the handler and the victim. In my opinion I believe there are more pros than cons but bad things can happen at unexpected times no matter how trained the dog is or how prepared K-9 handlers are. It's a very serious career because dogs behavior can change at unexpected times and the handler has to be prepared for those days to make sure everyone is safe especially the one who is handling their