Summary:
Of them, only 28 are sniffer dogs. This is the first time when such a panel involving IPS officers has been formed.The order was issued by Rajendra Pal Singh, DGP (economic offences wing), UP Police on June 12. The officers in the panel are R K Vishwakarma, Aditya Mishra and KCP Kumar.At present, only 39 out of 75 districts in UP have a dog squad. These dogs also came in handy during the theft of animals including cattle in Allahabad, Meerut and Saharanpur.The UP Police said that it has already planned to purchase a batch of 16 more dogs, while another 20 are getting trained at BSF’s National Training Centre for Dogs. Besides, the recent seizure of explosives between Kanpur and Lucknow as well as the controversy around PETN had caused a huge embarrassment to the state government"We had to sack our Forensic Research Laboratory director over the PETN recovery row..