April 8, 2015 — Officials from the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection are enlisting dogs to help sniff out illegally caught fish.
DEEP says three of its Environmental Conservation Police officers and their Labrador Retriever partners have received three weeks of special training from a state police K-9 unit. Those involved include Officer Holly Bernier and Saydee, Officer William Logiodice and Ruger, and Officer Karen Reilly and Hunter.
The teams were certified in tracking and evidence recovery in 2012.
The dogs, who were rescued from the Connecticut Labrador Rescue Inc. in Hamden, have been trained to search on vessels, under rocks, and in other places where illegally taken fish could be hidden.
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