We are currently accepting applications for new handlers. Please email us for more information.
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Do you have a missing person, and need a search dog?
The first step is to call your local police department, or 911. Your police department must decide to call the Rhode Island State Police at, 401-444-1000. In calling the State Police, local departments may still manager the search with the aid of the Rhode Island State Police, or ask the State Police to assume control of the search.
The State Police may respond with their search dogs first. Once it is determined that our team is needed, the State Police will dispatch us directly.
It is very important to go through the proper channels when you have a missing person, as time matters! We CANNOT respond to individual requests to search on an active missing person case without the State Police calling us.
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Our Search dogs are utilized in emergency situations involving wilderness settings to help locate missing persons, such as a lost hiker, an alzeimers patient who wonders off, or anyone else who finds themselves lost in a woodland setting. Some of our SAR dogs are also used for cadaver search. In a wilderness search where a person is missing in a general area with no known particular "place last seen," the search area is commonly divided up into sectors and then each sector is covered by working the dog back and forth across the area and into the wind. This is the ideal situation, but often this simple approach isn't workable and that's where the experience and resourcefulness of the dog/handler become very important. Rhode Island Canine Search and Rescue, is available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year to respond to local, state, and federal law enforcement, as well as other public service agencies.
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