Police Dogs in Saarland
| DOI | 10.1177/0032258X7204500211 |
| Published date | 01 April 1972 |
| Author | D. Gifford |
| Date | 01 April 1972 |
| Subject Matter | Article |
ment.
It
is an essential condition of a nation's survival and happi-
ness". Modifications due to differing circumstances of various
categories of employed persons are as commonplace in negotiation
as are likenesses.
Because these comparisons, with modifying factors, are system-
atically assembled by LACSAB and because that organisation also
follows local government practices in general, it does not follow
that the police suffer; if sufficient allowance is not made for the dif-
ferences between a policeman's duties and those
of-say-a
crafts-
man or a fireman, then it is the responsibility of the federation to
emphasize these differences and seek to have them recognised in the
respective rates of pay.
It
must not be supposed that inclusion under the Belgrave Square
umbrella is the reason for comparisons being made between con-
ditions and pay in various forms of employment; these would take
place even if the police had a totally separate form of negotiation.
The employers would adduce arguments based on the alleged
similarity of employee X and the police officer; the police organisa-
tion would make comparisons with others which would give a more
favourable slant to the pay trends of their members.
Exclusion from the local government field would not necessarily
have any benefit for the police.
It
might easily make the process of
collecting data for comparative pay levels and range of duties which
are essential in all negotiations a more complex and dilatory under-
taking and this could only slow up the process of handling pay
claims.
CONSTABLE
D.
GIFFORD
Dorset and Bournemouth Constabulary
Constable Gifford, a working dog-handler, recently paid a visit to
Germany to study the police dogs at Saarbrucken. He reports his
findings in the country whichhas played the largest part in the develop-
ment
of
police dogs.
POLICE
DOGS
IN
SAARLAND
I am obliged to the Police Authority of my force for the oppor-
tunity given me in
1971
to spend 27 days at the Dog Training School
in Saarbrucken, an establishment under the direction of Police Dog
Chief Carl Muller and his deputy, Wilhelm Schmitt. Ilearned much
of practical value and since my return we have tried some of the
methods I saw, with considerable success.
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