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).
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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.
(STAFF WRITER, WITH AFP)
英國警犬指揮員正在學著用德語對他們的動物下達指令，因為這些指揮警員正和一批來自德國的犬隻共事。
英國中部偏東的德比郡警方對德國警犬的試驗結果相當成功；現在，有其他十六支警隊也決定從德國進口警犬，每隻訓練有素的犬隻要價兩千英鎊（新台幣十二萬七千兩百元）。
但是這些狗兒聽不懂英文指令，一位警犬指揮員說：「如果你用英文說『let go』，牠們只會盯著你看，一付你發瘋了的樣子。」因此，指揮員得學會一些德語的指令，包括「sitz」（坐）、「platz」（下）、「aus」（鬆手）、「holen」（去撿來）和「bissen」（咬）。
德比郡警局的女發言人說，他們也嘗試用英文對狗下指令。
「我們分別用德文和英文重複指令訓練，希望他們會成為雙語警犬，」她補充說明。（法新社／翻譯：袁星塵）
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