Police Dog: Training your best friend

Police Dog: Training your best friend

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it’s all love its end the day I go home
loving this dog and he’s a big goof but
he’s awesome
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I’m third-generation my father was NYPD
my grandfather was NYPD and my other
grandfather was NASA County so I’ve kind
of been born and raised into a police
family
my best friend you know and she’s gonna
have the same thing with Mack they just
they are amazing amazing dogs except
when they want the German shepherds wine
a lot
you have a partner that can save your
life
you can indicate on an explosive you can
save many other lives and the trust that
I have to have in him it’s like nothing
else
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I wanted to tell you a little bit about
this facility it’s probably the largest
in the country that’s dedicated to
transportation and transport only
investing in these dogs and the canines
is probably the best barrier we can put
between the bad guy and us they for the
investment we put in these dogs and what
they give back to us is 20 fold these
dogs have so much utility to us and do
so much good if the average person was
aware of it they’d be amazed there’s a
whole testing process that takes a
couple of weeks
so they’re with us for a couple of weeks
before we assign them to police officers
and then once we do assign them we try
to match personality to dog officer
Schmidt is a relatively new officer she
is about four years experience she’s had
some exposure to k-9 and her home life
as she’s very familiar with one of our X
k9 handlers so she knows what to expect
we looked into her career and a career
in the past four years has been very
active she’s not afraid to take on
problems or people and we look for
people that are responsible and she’s
showing us that she’s responsible he’s
got a lot of puppy energy and I I grew
up playing sports and my activity level
is
pretty hot so I think we’re compatible
in that area he’s not a pet and he’s not
a full tool
he’s a very social usable resource and
you know when he lives at home with the
family he has to be social and be with
people just like he has to be social
here at work but these dogs are very
high drive they love to work they’re
looking for a toy all the time that
their whole reason in doing any of this
work is that they want to play so the
thing that makes them happy as they get
to have a toy and play with it you know
it’s it’s all positive reinforcement on
the dogs
it’s a lot of work I never expected it
to be this much work but it’s
it’s great time great experience I need
more work than the dog does dog picked
it up within a month and you know here
I’m working on myself
oh yeah way to go okay he thinks I threw
a ball but it was really a snowball he’s
not gonna find it in snow at the time I
was in keen on working with blood and
Alison was working patrol in Penn
Station and she was in the the police
booth right outside of a waiting room
and I walked up I haven’t catch a glance
at her and I’d walked right into the
booth hopped on her lap she saw him she
saw me that’s it
the rest is history what’s kind of
ironic is that I’ve been allergic to
dogs my whole life so we know they
always wanted to have a dog in our
family but we were on him so yeah so
we’ve never had it we’ve never owned a
dog we’ve never had a dog as a pet we’ve
never had a cat as a pet so she didn’t
really grow up in an environment animals
in the house Anthony worked with bud for
seven years yeah I saw the relationship
they had together knowing him and
meeting him and seeing his bond that he
had with bud it was kind of one of the
things one of the reasons I wanted to
get into this unit excuse me go for a
walk why’d you ever come on bud stay
stay first she was a little jealous so
anywhere I go he’d follow with his eyes
but over the last couple years special e
since he retired that’s gone for her too
he focuses a lot on her and I we were
worried when Mac came in that it was
gonna be oh that’s my mommy no that’s my
mommy but so far it’s been smooth Sam
let’s hope it stays that way drink
he’s
my father moved to Malvern when he was
young with my grandparents and the
McDonald family’s from Malvern as well
they got to know each other throughout
town pride in McDonald’s Mayor of
Melbourne
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I mean I’ve known Allison since she was
a child I’ve known the Schmidt family
before Allison was born I had the good
fortune to know Stephen a little bit and
I really truly was a great man so we
were all sorry last year when when he
died and uh I just know I know his son
Connor as well and they brought up a
really remarkable young – oil paddy and
Stephen both should be really proud of
how they raised him so well
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I actually got to choose the name for
Mac we named all our dogs after fallen
heroes police officers soldiers that
have lost their life in the line of duty
so she called and she had asked Connor
and I would you mind would you mind if I
named the dog after Stephen and Connor
and I were blown away I knew it’d be an
awesome tribute and he unfortunately
passed away in January so the timing of
it and knowing the McDonald family
knowing his inspiration for police
departments and it was very nice to hear
Patti be very grateful about deeming him
Mac I was not the dog person
Stephen grew up with the dog and when we
moved here to Malvern Stephen wanted a
dog and I was like no way because I did
not grow up with the dog now we have
Murphy who was named after Michael
Murphy the Navy SEAL who was killed and
so we tell his story we’ll have people
ask us you know how did you get Murphy
and so like Mack Murphy is you know the
dog we named after someone very special
Michael Murphy I feel very blessed that
Allison chose Mac for Steven his story
has been a huge inspiration for I think
every police officer especially in New
York City and everyone knows the story
and he’s been a great inspiration for
all of us
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it’s a max first time at Penn Station
today we’re getting abusive environment
people sounds noises sirens the train
car that vibration
everything’s due to him he’s getting
used to it okay
he’s never been on escalator his whole
life so we’re gonna work on that see how
it feels it’s a lot for them sit sit
he’s just excited cuz he hears all those
other dogs break sit
stay leave it
leave it sit sit
leave it
I’m getting there I’m not a hundred
percent but I’m learning with him he’s
learning a lot quicker than me but I
feed off of him and this is all new for
me as well
yes this is the best part to him he
loves this we just hit our halfway point
in training so we’re about six seven
weeks in I’m very happy with his
progress he’s healing a lot better
we’ve been practicing on that practicing
on the sit and stay off leash which he’s
working on but it’s still it’s gonna
take a lot of time at home as well the
bond we developed right now is it’s
inseparable and I take him home not many
people realize that this dog is with me
24/7 when people at home they have a pet
when you go to work you leave that dog
home I have the privilege of eating with
me what I got it
chicken come check it Basco boy it’s not
the toy that gets changed out we roll we
have millions of towels at our facility
because each scent is a different towel
so at first like the black powder we
actually take a plastic bag and roll the
black powder within the towel so that’s
when they’re playing with it
they are breathing in that scent so when
they’re breathing in that sense they
think okay this is fun this is exciting
for me let’s go find that scent so now
when they search the train car and they
smell that feel like all my toys here
he’ll come on week
he’ll today a certification day it’s a
very exciting day and work very hard to
be here it’s gonna be nerve-racking
because now it’s now it’s not training
now it’s real life and we’ll be in Grand
Central Penn Station but we’re excited
to be out there and decide certify
really we gotta get past that first you
don’t go to work
see check check sit yes I’m here
yes you have two hearts okay okay sit
good work seek we are certified
officially officially certified now I
know he’s excited to go to work
and you did such a good job 12-week
course a lot of hard work dedication but
it’s all paid off
thank you
you write the word thank you
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and I never won
well now Matt gets the word shield to
work every day and he’s earned it
he’s worked very hard to be here and
we’re very grateful for them to have
this experience
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kay nine six seven essential security
inspection on Khan kuma station
I work 19 bio 7 which is 7:00 p.m. to
7:00 a.m. 12 hour tours and each night
could be a different location were you
going to do a security inspection we do
about five or six a night depending on
where we’re located we do different
locations if there’s a busier train
station we try and stay there for a long
period of time we check the station
check the waiting rooms see if there’s
any suspicious vehicles I’m aware of the
danger I’ve always said that I was had
the good fortune working some nice
precincts in Manhattan there were
relatively low crime but you know I was
always aware and always stated to other
people that you know anything can happen
at any place at any time I don’t worry
on a daily basis about it you know I
think that the train that she’s
undergone has made her well equipped to
do the job that she’s got to do
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my first bag I ever searched outside of
training was probably the scariest just
because like what happened to be in the
gates
it’s now it’s it’s not training anymore
it’s my first real bag and the three
months worth of training really they
helped us get to that point and I trust
Mac 100% and thankfully I do because I
wouldn’t be able to do this job if I did
not trust him the one absolutely
unselfish friend that man can have in
this selfish world the one that never
deserts him the one that never proves
ungrateful or treacherous is his dog and
that’s so true I mean as Mac is to to
Allison Murphy is to me the first week
it was kind of little crazy
it was untrained dogs but now oh shoot
what happened don’t get this on film