{"id":334413,"date":"2025-12-25T04:46:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T04:46:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/334413\/"},"modified":"2025-12-25T04:46:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-25T04:46:06","slug":"the-working-dogs-that-dont-stop-for-the-festive-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/334413\/","title":{"rendered":"The working dogs that don&#8217;t stop for the festive season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">PD Igi, a German Shepherd Dog, is a general police patrol dog. He could, Insp Harrison said, be called on to attend a variety of incidents over this festive season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;There is a lot more socialising and we see nightlife increase  &#8211; and it is great to see &#8211; but, unfortunately, it does come with an increase in some anti-social behaviour, falling out amongst people and drink\/drug driving,&#8221; Insp Harrison said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However often, &#8220;a few choice barks&#8221; or &#8220;a stern look from the big fella&#8221; is all it takes to de-escalate the situation, the senior officer added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Insp Harrison said Christmas is a difficult time for some people and they can find themselves in crisis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">PD Igi can also be called on to help in the search if someone goes missing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Igi&#8217;s nose and tracking abilities can be invaluable to the policing efforts,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Those who need a little help are often glad to be found by a police dog.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PD Igi, a German Shepherd Dog, is a general police patrol dog. He could, Insp Harrison said, be&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":334414,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-334413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=334413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334413\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/334414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}