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Criminal Apprehension – Police canines throughout the United States are mostly utilized for the same purpose and basically follow the same guidelines. The canines are used to assist their handlers, detectives and other officers in locating a suspect, missing person, narcotics/explosives and evidence.
At times the canines are used to stop fleeing criminals, which may have escaped capture if a canine was not available, by physical apprehension.
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The canine handler must consider the totality of the circumstances involved in each particular incident prior to deploying the canine.
- The severity of the crime committed by the suspect.
- Does the suspect pose an immediate threat to other officers or the community.
- Is the suspect actively resisting arrest or attempting to evade arrest by fleeing.
The Ventura County Sheriff’s Department K9 Unit makes every attempt to take a suspect into custody without using the physical apprehension abilities of the canines. However, there are times when officers are faced with violent criminals who will use any means necessary to avoid arrest. |
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| The canine unit has hundreds of deployments a year. A deployment is considered a use of a canine for an area search, building search, track, missing adult or child search, evidence search, narcotic search or any other use. The deployments result in an average of 75 plus apprehensions a year for the canine unit. However, most incidents are resolved peacefully with a very small portion of the apprehensions resulting in the canine physically apprehending a suspect. |
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