Cst. Chabot and his furry partner, Max are busy these days training in Regina.
"The dog is responding very to the training," explained Deputy Police Chief, Murray Cowan. "He's bonding very well with his handler, Cst. Chabot and they are well into it in Regina and things seem to be going really well."
"The training from start to finish takes about four months in total. It's a fairly lengthy training program and it involves some very vigorous physical activity for both the handler and the dog. They do everything from obedience training, your basic obedience training like anyone would train a dog right up to the tracking, article searching, aggressive type training."
He added that in the light of recent incidents in Regina involving police dogs, they are taking steps to make sure that the dog is well trained and not to let the dog into situation before it is fully trained.
"And we're very careful with that because the dog is a working dog, we're very careful how we interact with the public. Certainly they can have a look through the window as the dog is inside the vehicle but because the dog is not fully trained yet, we just want to be very careful to make sure that nothing happens and the dog doesn't overreact."
He adds that community events with the dog have been limited as to not stress the dog.
"When you think about stress, when it comes to those of us in our jobs, dogs go through the same thing. And that's all part of the training because we want to make sure that they can handle that kind of stress. So at this point, we are very careful."
"There is a responsibility on us to control that type of thing."
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