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I am employed as an Animal Control Officer and part of my job is training new officers. Video cameras in police work are everywhere, on cars, in the Taser, in the police station, everything is recorded not only for evidence, but for training purposes. What was done right? What was done wrong? What could have been done differently? In my opinion Animal Control is lagging behind in this area. Our officers train for about 10 weeks and most of the time they never end up catching a fearful or aggressive dog on a control pole, nor do they usually see it done, surprisingly it’s just not that common. Treats and a leash are much better tools, though the control pole has it’s place too. I hope to use this video, and others like it, to help train new officers.
The camera is an Oregon Scientific ATC2K Waterproof Action Camera. I’m recording onto 1GB memory cards at an original resolution of 640×480 at 30 frames per second, giving me just over 30 minutes recording time on each memory card. I have a camera mounted on my control pole and one mounted as a dash camera. I hope to feature more videos from both of these cameras in the future.
About the dog. It was originally running in traffic before my trainee and I forced him onto the side streets. He would not respond to treats and may have been more fearful due to there being two people in uniform with control poles cornering him, but we couldn’t just let him go. Since he was originally in traffic on a busy street, we felt it was better to try to catch him before he caused an accident or got struck and injured or worse yet, killed. He freaked out a bit after he was caught on the control pole, a common occurance, but was not injured in doing so.
This video is not meant to show the only way to catch a fearful dog. It was the way it was done this time. It is simply a training aid, nothing more. You may have done things differently. I’m sure if I was in civilian clothes, I probably could have called to him and got him on a leash, but I wasn’t. This video has been edited since he was followed for quite some time before ending up in the front yard where the video starts. Given more time he probably could have been won over with some cat food, but due to the high call volume our department has, time is not something we have a lot of when we’re on the road.
The really good news is that his owner picked him up the next day.
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