Dog Branch

The Strathclyde Police Dog Branch is based at Pollok Country Park, Pollok, Glasgow.  From our headquarters there we deploy police dogs throughout the Strathclyde Region.  The centre is also designated as the Scottish Regional Police Dog Training School for all Scottish forces. 

What we do

At the dog branch, we specialise in training dogs for a range of policing support roles including:

• General purpose
• Drugs detection
• Explosive detection
• Offender detection
• Tactical firearms support

How do the dogs support police work?

Our handlers and dogs perform a range of valuable policing roles including:

• crowd management at major sporting events
• searching buildings and open ground for missing and wanted people
• searching for evidence
• drugs detection and explosive detection 
• tracking suspects
• recovering victims
• tactical firearms operations
• supporting community-based initiatives
• public order response
• high-profile, proactive, intelligence-led patrols

All of these operational functions actively contribute to public reassurance, response policing and engaging criminality.