So what kind of dogs were you working with and what What sort of scenes and cases were you being called out to?

Primarily, we were using German shepherds.

And the first thing, the most important thing is what we call tracking.

So that is where Billy Burglar has come to your house, done a burglary, maybe two o'clock in the morning.

Someone's heard something and they've seen him running across the back gardens.

police are called what you do well we haven't got description but we know he's run off down that garden so the dogs are trained to follow the most recent scent so imagine if you pick two handfuls of grass yeah you pick them up and you scrunch a load of grass in one hand and you leave the other in your hand if you smell the scrunch grass you can actually smell like cut grass And if you smell the other one, you wouldn't smell much at all because one's been crunched.

That is what the dogs are trained to do.

Has that been something that you've experienced?