The Trinidad and Tobago Police Service is acknowledging the importance of their furry comrades, as the world is set to celebrate International Dog Day on August 26th. Alicia Boucher has the details.
00:00International Dog Day. It was created to bring more awareness to the condition of animals and to propel people to adopt them.
00:09However, Commissioner of Police Alistair Guevara, and by extension the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service, is using the occasion to highlight a TTPS canine unit.
00:19It was in part done at a ceremony held today at the Police Administration Building in Port of Spain.
00:24During the event, author Debbie Jacob presented her book titled Police Dogs of Trinidad and Tobago, A Seventy Year History, to Commissioner Guevara, as well as Police Museum Curator Cara Roopsingh, and the Police Academy Library.
00:41The TTPS says the canine unit has been an important crime-fighting section of the police service since its inception in September of 1952, on the 25th to be exact.
00:53The TTPS also uploaded a video to its Facebook page of an anti-crime operation conducted in the Northeastern Division today, where officers were seen alongside their canines.
01:05And here's a little bit of history.
01:08The first four TTPS officers and four German shepherds who trained at the Metropolitan Police Station in London were Corporal Theophilus Thomas and his dog Bruno, Sergeant George Alexis and dog Carlos, Police Constable Hamilton Bridgman and dog Shah, and Corporal Carlisle Piggott and dog Winston.
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