I am well aware of that interview and the smug mr. mccann saying he knew better than other people.
Totally wrong, then again, I would not trust his judgments per se.
We are on a thread which discusses the reliability of Victim Recovery Dogs.
As the title implies ... that means dogs successfully finding human remains either in part or in full.
... from Freedom of Information Request ... Reference number: 20090062 ... South Yorkshire Police ...
However, we can provide the following details regarding Victim Search Dog deployments between 2003 and 2007:
As two teams working together: handler Ellis and dog Frankie, with handler Grime and dog Eddie have been deployed on
twenty occasions, with the recovery of
four bodies.
Working alone,
Grime/Eddie have been deployed on
seventeen occasions with the recovery of
one body and
Ellis/Frankie have been deployed on
five occasions with the recovery of
three bodies, this includes the recovery of two women in one grave.
I think the point to that may be ... if there is a body or parts of a body to be found, there is a fair chance the VRD will find it. We know that Frankie also alerted in the case of Mrs Harron ... but the 'hit' is claimed by Eddie (whoever heard of Frankie or when he discovered people?).
But ... twenty deployments ~ four finds (Grime/Eddie + Ellis/Frankie)
seventeen deployments ~ one find(Grime/Eddie)
five deployments ~ three finds (Ellis/Frankie) doesn't really give a true picture of ability.
Were the eight bodies recovered the targets of the twenty ~ seventeen ~ five deployments over the four year period? Or are there still thirty odd bodies out there still to be found?
Whatever ~ the figures rather debunk the 200 successful deployments claimed for Eddie. It also prompts the question ... if a striker sets foot on the pitch twenty times in a row and scores twice, what is the important figure the twenty or the two?
I think the dogs are reliable if there is something there to be found ... going on the figures I think Frankie may well have the edge on Eddie.
