Former M.O.D Police & Guarding Agency MWD Handler.
Detection dog handler, trainer & instructor. Mad about working dogs and Land Rover Defenders 🏴
Great to be on @BBCBreakfast this morning with Scamp and Yoyo, the 53rd and 54th recipients of the @PDSA_HQ Order Of Merit.
No other tobacco dogs come close.
#illegaltobacco
Having two retired tobacco detection dogs be awarded the @PDSA_HQ Order of Merit will never become boring.
Scamp OOM and Yoyo OOM, the 53rd and 54th animals to be honoured with medals by Her Royal Highness The Duchess of Edinburgh.
#illegaltobacco
HRH The Duchess of Edinburgh presented Scamp and Yoyo with medals last week.
Scamp and Yoyo are only the 53rd and 54th animals to be awarded the @PDSA_HQ Order of Merit and they are the only Tobacco Detection Dogs.
#illegaltobacco
A Trowbridge shopkeeper has been given a 12 month prison sentence suspended for 18 months for selling illegal tobacco following a raid by our Trading Standards team, in a case which also saw more than £100,000 worth of the product seized. Read more 👉🏼 https://t.co/sjyxKdvVm2
Yesterday Milton Keynes Trading Standards seized another 77 illegal vapes & 353 illegal tobacco products from shops in Bletchley. To report sales of illicit vapes and tobacco visit: https://t.co/RRmNLPFz5S
@mkcouncil
Day one of the European Customs Championship is over. The weather was so good to us.
Today I was refereeing dog teams searching vehicles for drugs.
Here’s Irish Customs searching and a handsome retriever from Lithuania.
An absolute honour and privilege to be selected as the only UK Dog Instructor to wear this next week.
Joining 5 other referees from Netherlands, Latvia Customs, Lithuanian Customs, Estonian Military Police & Czech Republic Customs.
More news soon.
When you get a letter from the King and Queen, you must be doing something right with your dogs surely.
Something very special happening with our #illegaltobacco dogs, watch this space.
Successful day yesterday on the south coast. Hundreds of illegal vapes and #illegaltobacco seized.
But the big bonus was HMRC seizing two cars for being used to store illegal tobacco products.
Another successful tobacco dog operation this week. Thousands of illicit cigarettes, tobacco and illegal vapes seized #hullcentral#TradingStandards#team3
Our dogs work has made @SkyNews twice in 7 days. We must be doing something right.
Working in partnership with @SwanseaTS to disrupt organised crime.
#illegaltobacco#swansea
Our dogs work has made @SkyNews twice in 7 days. We must be doing something right.
Working in partnership with @SwanseaTS to disrupt organised crime.
#illegaltobacco#swansea
Another massive load of illegal vapes found, this time in a WW2 bunker behind a Swansea shop.
#illegaltobacco#illegalvapes#swansea
https://t.co/d3J8uqMda0