Search dogs are being trained to track down dementia patients who go missing as part of a £1million scheme.Īround 100 are involved in the Search Dog Heroes initiative to help police, relatives and care workers bring vulnerable people back to safety.

Roo, pictured with handler Jo Armstrong, recently became the first dog in the UK to be trained (Image: North Downs Picture Agency) Lowland Rescue in Swindon, Wiltshire, is training dogs as part of the Search Dog Heroes initiative, which will help the relatives of dementia patients. The Daily Mirror‘s Danny Buckland wrote on 2 March 2020: