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FOX-25'S MARK MYERS TELLS US
MORE ABOUT THESE '4-LEGGED' MA.
MANHUNTERS.
"High speed pursuit on county
roads east of Ada."WE GET A
FIRST HAND LOOK...
LOOK..."The subject traveled
back behind the residence."
TROOPERS IN SEARCH OF A MAN ON
THE RUN.
RUN.A SEARCH PLANE
OVER-HEAD...DOZENS OF OFFICERS
WITH GUNS DRAWN...IT'S AN
INTENSE SITUATION. BUT
TROOPERS HAVE SECRET WEAPONS
WORKING IN THEIR FAVOR....
FAVOR....THEY ARE ABOUT TO
RELEASE THE HOUNDS.
HOUNDS."100% of the time when
the bad guy has been somewhere
someone has told us he
was...I'm talking about good
solid information these dogs
have made apprehension."ABOUT
A YEAR AGO THE OKLAHOMA
HIGHWAY PATROL DETERMINED THEY
HAD TO MAKE CHANGES IN HOW
THEY TRACK ESCAPEES. ITS
CAPTURE RATE WAS BELOW PAR...
SOMETHING HAD TO BE DONE.
DONE. "Before once a guy
got into the woods he could
stay as long as he wanted
to...you go in there cover
yourself up and no one is
going to find you. The dogs
will find you."THE PACK...15-
HOUNDS...TRAINED TO TRACK.
"I really don't know about
it...it's misunderstood no one
really knows what it is."IF
THE DOGS CAN GET TO A SCENE
WITHIN 6-HOURS OF AN ESCAPEE
TAKING OFF... THE HIDE AND
SEEK GAME IS OVER.THE MYSTERY
IS HOW THE HOUNDS DO IT... NO
ONE KNOWS FOR SURE... BUT MOST
LIKELY, IT'S IN THEIR NOSE.
NOSE."Those dogs they don't
know what it is either but
it's instinct and they've got
it figured out whatever it is
they're following they've got
good at it."BUT THESE HOUNDS
DON'T WORK ALONE....
ALONE...."A mule is half
donkey, half horse."OHP IS
ALSO USING 4-MULES TO HELP
WITH THE HUNT.
HUNT.Well we had to have
something to follow these
dogs, they found out real
quick that we weren't going to
be able to keep up with them
on foot."MULES ARE MOTHER
NATURES ALL TERRAIN VEHICL
VEHICLE."The mule has his
place and to ride a mule in
tougher country where he pays
close attention where he puts
his feet and is thinking
ahead...these mules are smart,
smarter than a person would thi"
think."
"Now one of the key things
about mules during a manhunt
is their ability to jump...and
hop over fences."
fences.""It's more natural for
them because the way they're
built to squat and jump like a
deer and it's easy to teach
them how to jump a fence."
THESE ANIMALS IN ACTION ARE
AMAZING...IN THE TIME THEY'VE
BEEN IN DUTY NOT ONE ESCAPEE
HAS GOTTEN AWAY.
"I'm sure it's unexpected
by most people we go after."
after.""It's more disbelief
than anything else. When you
ride up on a mule with a bunch
of hounds jumping around he's
had it."THE DEPARTMENT SAYS
NOT ONLY ARE THESE ANIMALS
GREAT FOR PUBLIC SAFETY, BUT
THEY ARE SAVING THE STATE MONEY.
MONEY.These things don't turn
into 100-man manhunts that
cost half a million dollar."
MUTTS AND MULES.....CRIMINALS--
YOU CAN RUN FROM THEM....
THEM...."He wormed his way
back there covered himself up
and those little dogs found
him showed me where he was at."
BUT YOU CAN NOT HIDE. MARK
MYERS FOX-25 NEWS.
IN ADDITION TO THE
HOUNDS, AND MULES... THE
HIGHWAY PATROL'S 'NEW' MANHUNT
PROGRAM... INCLUDES AN
UPDATED 'INTELLIGENCE' PROGRAM.
THE DEPARTMENT ALSO USES
ITS AIRPLANE AND HELICOPTER TO