Mounties Find the Rangers

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By
ROY THORSEN

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HE MOUNTIES do not hesi-
B tate to put in an SOS for South

Vancouver Island Rangers help
to locate missing persons with the aid
of their bloodhounds. In fact so valu-
able have the R.C.M.P. found the
Ranger help that the famed scarlet-
coated force has organized a 21-week
course to give key personnel of the
civvy club information on various
aspects of criminal work and _ also
traffic control operations. Police ex-
perts are the teachers.

By the way, the Mounties found
the Rangers a handy organization to
turn to for help in handling the im-
mense job of traffic control during
the Royal Visit here in October.

One of the R.C.M.P. expert man-
tracking dog-handlers, Constable
Keith A. (Sandy) Sanderson, of the
Cloverdale detachment, was loaned to
the Rangers last summer to give them
some valuable pointers on training
their two bloodhounds for searches
for lost persons.

“The hounds undoubtedly have
ability and with constant training and
careful handling they should fit them-
selves nicely into the role of ‘man-
hunter.’ ”

H. A. ROBERTS
(Nanaimo) Lid.
M. G. ZORKIN, Mar.

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People to Know

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police have recog-
nized the South Vancouver Island Rangers, Inc.,

as a unique civilian organization that can render
the police force valuable assistance.

That was the heartening verdict of
Officer Sanderson to officials of the
Rangers after 10 days of observing the
two bloodhounds in action on the
beautiful 24-acre Luxton grounds of
the club.

Sanderson is one ot those who has
charge of one of the two man-tracking
dogs the force has in this province.

Search For Lost Persons

When the Mounties took over the

policing reins of B.C. last year, top

Constable Keith Sanderson with his cross-bred German Shepherd, veteran of many criminal
and missing person hunts.

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