THE HOPATCONG POLICE DEPARTMENT
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K-9 OFFICER ROSCO
Officer Luciani has dedicated countless hours of his own time training Rosco to become the tracking dog that he now is. This training included hundreds of hours of practice tracks and scenarios throughout New Jersey, New York, and Massachusetts. Officer Luciani and Rosco have become a qualified bloodhound unit for the Hopatcong Police Department. On 12/09/05 Rosco has been officially certified through the Essex County Sheriffs Department. Rosco can now be called upon when someone is missing or the police are trying to track a fugitive. Besides tracking, Officer Luciani and Rosco have become a big hit at the local schools and day cares. Since Rosco is a bloodhound he responds to children very well. Bloodhounds are not attack dogs. The bloodhounds skill is their scenting capabilities. They are the best at tracking the human scent. When a person that Rosco was tracking is located Rosco jumps up on him or her to identify that person as the one he was tracking. Even in a line of people Rosco will pick out only the person he was tracking.
Officer Luciani prepares Rosco on a drill. The bag next to Rosco contains a personal item that Rosco will sniff and use to follow the missing persons trail
Officer Luciani is giving Rosco a good wiff of an article of clothing that the missing person owns. This will be the scent Rosco will track.
Rosco is hot on the scent
Rosco thinks he found where the scent led him
When Rosco finds the person, he jumps up on them to identify that the scent he was tracking came from this individual
Can you find the person in this picture? It was no problem for Rosco and his outstanding sense of smell.
They even look alike.
