This is how K-9 units track down suspects hiding from cops

The Placer County Sheriff’s Office received questions about how its K-9 searches for wanted suspects, and so the department responded in a video showing an element of the tracking training police dogs go through.

To prepare for the video posted to Facebook on April 24, 2019, Deputy Semenuk laid a training track by walking around specific areas to leave a scent and then checked how well K-9 Ronin picked it up.

The track contained “multiple directional changes and concealed a toy at the end of the track. K9 Ronin was deployed 40 minutes later simulating a scenario where a wanted subject flees from law enforcement and a K9 is requested for the search,” according to the post.

Watch the video above.

This story was originally published April 25, 2019 at 10:02 AM.