RESCUE DOGS WORKING
IN
NEW SOUTH WALES
PRISONS
It is a pleasure to have a good story to report on in
the New South Wales Prisons for a change.
For some reason, it seems to me it’s all doom and gloom.
The Prison Officer’s Union is the Public Service
Association. Their news magazine is
titled ‘Red Tape’.
I received my October-December 2017 issue this morning
and I was delighted to see a wonderful article on two young Prison Officers who
are working in the Department’s K9 Training Team.
The dogs they are training were rescue dogs from
Herds2Homes, a great organisation whose charter is to get rescue farm dogs and
rehouse them.
The dogs are trained and
put to work sniffing out a variety of drugs within the NSW Prison system. If we believe the publicity and I do, the NSW
Prison system is full of drugs and therefore these two young dogs and their
handlers should be of great value to the Department and to the public in
general.
The handler above is First Class Prison Officer Mick
Campbell with his 22 month old kelpie-cross ‘Seb’. Mr. Campbell undertook a four month
intensive training course with his faithful companion Seb, who lives at home
with his master.
Mr. Campbell is also shown in the photo below with his
work colleague, First Class Prison Officer Greg Breeze and his faithful dog ‘Wilbur’
who is 21 months old and is also a kelpie-cross.
Mr. Breeze is quoted as saying “Coming to work with your
mates and these great dogs. It’s a good place to be”, and for my money, I could
only imagine that it would be.
First Class Prison Officer Mick Campbell with his dog ‘Seb’
and First Class Prison Officer Greg Breeze with his dog ‘Wilbur’.
Photos and story in general courtesy of Red Tape –
Public Service Association of New South Wales.
Simply a great story.
This I believe.
Peter T Egge
