The Carinthian police service dog “Cupido” once again had the right nose. This time he didn’t find any drugs, but he did save the life of an 84-year-old in the Spittal an der Drau district.
The 84-year-old woman suffering from dementia left a care facility in the Spittal an der Drau district on Sunday around 7 p.m. Therefore, a patrol from the Spittal an der Drau police station and a patrol from the Paternion police dog station searched for the missing person in the building and in the surrounding area. Ultimately, service dog “Cupido” led his handler Mario Druml on the right track. The male Belgian Shepherd was able to find the missing woman around 9:15 p.m. in a field behind the care facility, hidden behind a pile of wood. The woman was uninjured, but slightly hypothermic. Police dog often successful “In these sub-zero temperatures, she could have frozen to death if she hadn’t been found,” emphasizes the police. The pensioner was handed over to the nursing staff. By the way, the police dog has been successful several times. In December 2023, “Cupido” sniffed out, among other things, hundreds of grams of cannabis and cocaine in the apartment of a 51-year-old suspect in the Spittal an der Drau district. In June 2022, the Malinois sniffed out drugs in teenagers’ cars.
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