My name is constable Dave Ling, police officer with the Royal Canadian Mounted
Police for approximately seven years now. My current posting, I'm assigned to the K
Division roving Traffic Unit as an investigator and specialty in narcotics
detection dog handler. One of my roles obviously is working the dog
for a living. She's a specialty narcotics dog so she is trained to
detect the numerous illegal narcotic odours. You know typically throughout the year we'll have
anywhere from forty to sixty dog deployments every year those are
operational deployments and obviously that doesn't count training days etc. We
also repeatedly seize cocaine, methamphetamine, heroin pretty much you
name it we seize it. Fentanyl is a big one that's been in the news a lot lately
recently our dogs have received training on fentanyl. If you can think of it we we
run into it on the highways. Jet, I have been her handler since November of 2015
just coming up just shy of two years I've been partnered with jet. Prior to
that she was a candidate in the police service dog program so I'm her first
handler. So basically we're just doing some laps around town oftentimes
we'll work major corridors and highways this particular day will work around
town and we'll also do some traffic enforcement around here. So basically
basically we're going to look for distracted drivers vehicle equipment
stuff we'll we'll run lots of license plates make sure vehicles are registered
we're looking for stolen vehicles looking for individuals with warrants
and that is certainly part of our mandate
(Lights and siren activated)
So I was just conducting patrols through this neighborhood it's actually a
high-traffic neighborhood for drug possession etc. Essentially I stopped this
vehicle for speeding near the school zone. With my interaction with the driver I
became suspicious that he may have drugs inside the vehicle. The driver was
subsequently detained for a drug investigation and I deployed my
narcotics detection k9 on the exterior of the vehicle. The dog alert to one of her
trained narcotic odours and the individual was arrested for possession
of a controlled substance. Obviously our mandate is road safety and traffic
safety so we'll do a lot of roving patrols, we'll drive all all over the
province and all over the highways and then do that type of work but los
sit stationary and basically right here we're just gonna run some radar
basically we just noticed a vehicle travel by us with the illegal front
window tint so essentially we're just going to close the distance and try and
catch up with them and conduct a traffic stop here.
(Lights and sirens activated)
control 10:11. Highway 1 eastbound right near the Petro Canada. Alberta marker....
...looking at a red charger, unknown occupants
Hey guys how we doing today? Good good it's Cst. Ling with Alberta traffic
services. The reason I stopped you today nothing to to major I just wanted to
address the illegal front window tint here ok?
I'm just giving these
occupants a warning on the window tint here. There's a myth that window tint
there's certain levels allowed but I've only policed in the province of Alberta
so I'll speak for Alberta. Any window tint on the front side windows is
contrary to the Alberta traffic safety act. So perfect, the police database just confirms
that she's an active driver she's not suspended or not wanted for any warrants
or anything like that so just be a warning for this driver today.
It's your vehicle sir right? Yeah so just make sure you have the window tint
removed okay window tint tickets can be expensive especially if they start adding up.
get that removed and you won't run into us okay! Thank you guys drive safe!
Policing never stops and that criminal aspect to things never ends and you also
necessarily can't always predict it so yeah regular days regular nothing days
where you just want to go go grab a coffee and and do some reports you'll
run into a stolen vehicle and then your day kind of goes out the window but the
best part of policing is having that unpredictability
you