Sniffer dog finds new career
A four-legged visitor brought a smile to the face of staff and patients at Ealing Hospital and Meadow House Hospice in the shape of Dexter the police dog.
The four-year-old Labrador didn’t make the grade as a sniffer dog as he was deemed too ‘sociable’ for the drug squad but his good nature gave him a second career in the Met as a ‘well-being’ dog.
Handler PC Mike Sheather said: “We were paired up a couple of years ago. I saw the potential of the Met having a dedicated wellbeing dog after Dexter spent much of the pandemic helping raise staff morale.
“My chief inspector asked me to write a business case and the rest is history.”