DOG POLICE AT PARIS.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 46, 15 September 1900, Page 4

DOG POLICE AT PARIS.

The dog policeman has joined the rce at Paris. He is an important attache of each station-house. He tas" bden tried in the quarter La Villette, and has done a groat deal -. » s ippress crkre I fcb.9ra. Favourable' reports have been made of his work and a large force of dogs are being trained for police doty. The dog policeman, ifc is believed, is more valuable in nnny cases than the human member of the force. He is gifted with a scent teener than chat of the ablest informer. He is honest and faithful, doesn't drink absinthe and doesn't smoke bad cigarettes. I'aris is inf> s*.ed with thugs who will throw into the r. or anyone worth killing. They vuU i slay a man -for five francs. They hunt in couples and hide behind walls When the policeman passes they will spring out upon him and kill him if he is in their way. The dogs are trained to accompany each of the policemen. At the word of command from him they will follow until they run down an escaping criminal. A person pursued by cue of the dogs is, of course, a marked man, and if he escapes from one policeman, it is only to run into fcbe arms of another on a neighbouring beat, who arrests him. Then the dog, wagging his tail, leads th" back to the policeman to whom b& owes allegiance. It is imposibtfe for the cleverest footpad to waylay and surprise a policeman accompanied by the trained dogs, for they give the alarm at once. The thugs of Paris stand in mortal dread oi the dogs. They fear hydrophobia from their bites. They know al?o that capture is inevitable if a dog once gets upon their track. The policemen report that the vecy cheapest kinds of mongrels, such as> are eaten in the j third- cate restaurants on the outer boulevards, can be trained to the work. Blood doesn't matter. Any sort of a do§, it seems, is a law abiding citizefy and can tell a criminal instinctive^ and likm to run him down.