police dog

police dog

English

Noun

police dog (plural police dogs)

1. A dog trained and employed by the police to pursue suspects or sniff out contraband.
   • 2020 April 22, “Network News: Man attacks BTP officers after being refused travel”, in Rail, page 11:

     A man who attacked three police officers and a police dog at Nottingham on April 4 has pleaded guilty to two counts of actual bodily harm, assault with intent to resist arrest, assault of an emergency worker, possession of a bladed article, possession of an offensive weapon, and causing unnecessary suffering to a protected animal.

2. (dated) Synonym of German shepherd
   • 1917, Dogdom: Monthly - Volume 18, page 596:

     Finding myself, the other day, in New London, Conn., the thought occurred that it would be a good time to pay a visit to my old friend, Henri I. Baer whose kennel of police dogs (German shepherd dogs) at East Killingly, Conn., was only an hour or so away.

   • 1926, Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association, Volumel 69:

     For instance, we will take a police dog, and no doubt you are all aware, as I am, of the fact that the police or German shepherd is one of the hardest dogs that we have to treat.

   • 1930 March, Stephen Sherman, “Was Your Dog Once A Wolf”, in Popular Science Monthly, page 57:

     Contrary to popular opintion, the shepherd or police dog has not been crossed with the wolf, and has none of the qualities of such a mongrel.

   • 2016, Janet Vorwald Dohner, Farm Dogs: A Comprehensive Breed Guide to 93 Guardians, Herders, Terriers, and other Canine Working Partners, →ISBN:

     By the mid-1920s, the annual registrations of German Shepherd Dogs surpassed 21,000 dogs a year in America and the breed had become one of the most well-known in the country. Unfortunately, to meet this demand for “German police dogs” too many puppies were bred indiscriminately and the breed's reputation suffered.

Synonyms

• K-9 unit, service dog

Hyponyms

• cadaver dog
• rescue dog
• search-and-rescue dog

Translations

trained dog for police work

Afrikaans: polisiehond Arabic: كَلْب بُولِيسِيّ‎ m (kalb būlīsiyy) Belarusian: паліцэйскі сабака m (palicejski sabaka), міліцэйскі сабака m (milicejski sabaka) Catalan: gos policia m Chinese: Mandarin: 警犬 (zh) (jǐngquǎn) Danish: politihund (da) c Dutch: politiehond (nl) m Esperanto: polica hundo, polichundo Finnish: poliisikoira (fi) French: chien policier (fr) m German: Diensthund m, Polizeihund (de) m, Polizeihündin (de) f Greek: please add this translation if you can Hebrew: כֶּלֶב מִשְׁטָרָה‎ m (kelev mishtará) Hindi: please add this translation if you can Hungarian: rendőrkutya (hu) Icelandic: lögregluhundur m Indonesian: anjing polisi Italian: please add this translation if you can Japanese: 警察犬 (ja) (けいさつけん, keisatsuken) Korean: 경찰견(警察犬) (gyeongchalgyeon) Macedonian: полициско куче n (policisko kuče), воено куче n (voeno kuče) Malay: Jawi: انجيڠ ڤوليس‎ Rumi: anjing polis Norwegian: politihund Bokmål: politihund m Nynorsk: politihund m Persian: سگ پلیس‎ (sag-e polis) Polish: pies policyjny (pl) m Portuguese: cão policial m Romanian: câine polițist m Russian: полице́йская соба́ка (ru) f (policéjskaja sobáka), милице́йская соба́ка f (milicéjskaja sobáka) (USSR, Russia before 2011 rebranding), служе́бная соба́ка f (služébnaja sobáka) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: полицијски пас m Roman: policijski pas m Spanish: perro policía m, perro policial m Swahili: mbwa wa polisi Swedish: polishund (sv) c Turkish: polis köpeği (tr) Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can West Frisian: plysjehûn c

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