Since 9 August, police have arrested 721 offenders – 596 adults and 125 juveniles – on 2,135 charges, including property crime, drug and weapons offences.

Local police have conducted 1215 bail checks and located 23 weapons out of 2,231 wandings as part of the high-visibility patrols.

The Townsville Dog Squad have been deployed to several incidents in recent weeks, to assist with tracking and apprehend offenders.

General purpose police dogs are trained to use their unique sense of smell to follow where a human has walked or run and continue following that track until the person is located.

This can be in suburbia, bush or semi-rural environments, and can also be deployed to search buildings or houses for suspects who are hiding.

The police dog squad enhances our policing capability by

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