The Carinthian police dog “Cupido” again had the right nose. This time he found no drugs, but he did save the life of an 84-year-old in the Spittal an der Drau district.
The 84-year-old woman with 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 the building and the surrounding area for the missing person. Ultimately, service dog “Cupid” 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 unharmed, but slightly hypothermic.
Police dog more often successful
“At these sub-zero temperatures, she could have frozen to death if she had not been found,” the police emphasize. The pensioner was handed over to the nursing staff. By the way, the police dog has been successful several times. In December 2023, “Cupid” 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 drugs in teenagers’ cars.
Source: Krone
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