Bloodhounds could save the State thousands

Specially trained bloodhounds could help the State save tens of thousands of euro during missing person searches, one of the world’s top search dog trainers has said.

Retired US deputy sheriff Terry Davis was speaking in Cork yesterday on the last day of his first visit to Ireland to deliver training for the voluntary Irish Search Dogs organisation.

Mr Davis spent almost 30 years working in law enforcement in Loudoun County, Virginia. He worked search dogs on dozens of cases relating to missing persons, homicide, rape, and drugs.