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To raise its own force, Railways will soon start dog breeding

The Railway Protection Force (RPF) claims that there is a requirement of about 2,600 trained dogs including sniffers and trackers in Railways.

• By: News Desk |
• April 16, 2017 12:29 pm

Railways is planning to set up a dog breeding and training centre to deal with the increased requirement of pedigree dogs for detecting explosives and drugs on its premises. According to reports, presently the Railways’ dog squad has only 332 canines as against the sanctioned strength of 459 while it has a limited capacity to train 23 dogs at the existing centres at Daya Basti in the national capital and Podanur in Chennai.

The Railway Protection Force (RPF) claims that there is a requirement of about 2,600 trained dogs including sniffers and trackers in Railways. To reduce the gap, the central dog breeding and training centre will come up with trained staff at railway land shortly. Railways is in the process of earmarking a suitable area for developing the state-of-the-art centre to strengthen its dog squad.

Sniffer dogs are required to detect explosives and drugs while trackers are pressed into service at the crime scene to detect culprits. Requirement of sniffer dogs is more as these are required at every platform of major stations, but at the moment it is not the case and sniffers are hard-pressed.