Article #2 - Police speak German to dogs 英警用德語指揮警犬

British police dog handlers are learning to give orders to their animals in German. The handlers are working with dogs from Germany.

A trial of the German dogs by Derbyshire Police in east central England worked out. Now 16 other forces have decided to get dogs from Germany too. Each specially trained dog costs ￡2,000 (NT$127,200).

But the dogs cannot understand orders in English. "If you say, 'let go' in English, they just look at you like you are crazy," one dog handler said. Handlers have had to learn some orders in German, including "sitz" (sit), "platz" (down), "aus" (let go), "holen" (fetch) and "bissen" (bite).

A Derbyshire Police spokeswoman said they were trying to get the dogs to respond to English.

"We are repeating the German [orders] in English so they are becoming bilingual," she added.