Hey,
I am doing an assignment and I was wondering if anyone knew if police dogs are trained in accordance with animal welfare legislation. I can't find much about it on google. All i found was how police dogs are excluded from the legislation on the docking of dogs tails.
I found some stories of neglect from individual dog handlers but nothing that actually states the intensiveness of the training or what it entails in detail.
Does the Animal Welfare Act of 2006 affect their training much? are police dogs exempt from most of it?