Mantrailing

This is a technique where the dog uses the smell of the missing person. Dependent on the weather conditions, it is very important that this technique is used within a few days after the disappearance, to guarantee the effectiveness. When this technique isn’t possible anymore, we continue the search.

Searching

Our dogs are specially trained to detect body odors of living and deceased people. With this method the dogs use “ bringsel “ to point of if they have found the victim. When searching for people we always use a compass and a GPS to map out the search locations and suspicious points.

Detection of human blood and (or) residues (H.B.D.)

This is a specialized technique for supporting forensic research activities in the search for traces of human blood and (or) remains by specially trained dogs.

Water

Even a search in water is possible, you can use a SONAR-system but this is very time consuming. Therefore we use dogs to drastically reduce the search areas. When we reduced the search areas, you can switch back to a SONAR-system or / and an underwater camera (ROV) to detect the body quickly.