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The Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Hertfordshire Independent Dog Welfare Visiting Scheme
The Independent Dog Welfare Visiting Scheme aims to build public confidence by ensuring the training and treatment of police dogs is transparent. This will be done by ensuring that police dogs are treated in a humane, ethical, and transparent way that complies with the Animal Welfare Act 2006.
Dog Welfare Visitors are members of the local community who are appointed to provide an independent check on the welfare of dogs in police care.
WE ARE NOW RECRUITING
Dog Welfare Visitors are members of the local community who are appointed to provide an independent check on the welfare of dogs in police care.
WE ARE NOW RECRUITING
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The Dog Visitor scheme is currently recruiting positions to bolster its dedicated existing team of volunteers. Please read through the information sheet and person specification document. If you feel you match the visitor profile, complete an application form, sign and return it to the address below.
Successful applicants will be invited to an interview and will be vetted and trained before beginning the scheme.
Send completed forms to:
Police and Crime Commissioner for Hertfordshire
Harpenden Police Station
15 Vaughan Road
Harpenden
Hertfordshire
AL5 4GZ
In order to remain independent visitors must have no direct involvement in the criminal justice system. Magistrates, serving police officers, special constables and probation officers are not allowed to become visitors. Other professions may also be excluded.
Visitors are also asked to declare any previous criminal convictions. However, a conviction does not mean an automatic disqualification from becoming a visitor. Each application is considered on a case by case basis.
Annual Report 2015/2016 (pdf)