Mantrailing | Missing Property (Theft) | Missing Persons | Child Recovery Potsdam

Kurtz Investigations Potsdam and Brandenburg investigates cases involving missing persons: runaway children, missing heirs (heir investigation), and relatives who have lost contact. The more data you can provide, the higher our chances of success.

 

The same applies to missing property. In most cases, these involve theft or burglary. Using various methods of criminal trace investigation, our Potsdam detectives are often able to reconstruct the course of events, follow the perpetrator’s trail and secure the missing property.

 

A method of criminal trace investigation that has been known for a long time in principle is the use of tracking dogs. Even Sherlock Holmes relied on the services of his mongrel Toby.

 

As a tool of criminal trace investigation, tracking dogs have fallen somewhat out of fashion in recent decades. Their fields of use were “largely” limited to rescue operations. However, so-called mantrailing, the search for persons using human-scent tracking dogs, opens up new and in some cases spectacular possibilities for criminalistics.

Mantrailing Dog; Mantrailing, Private Investigator Potsdam, Detective Agency Potsdam, Detective Potsdam, Private Detective Potsdam

Methodology of Trace Investigation Using Mantrailing Dogs

Mantrailing dogs are able to perceive the scent molecules that every human being emits individually on scent carriers and to follow the scent trail over enormous distances and periods of time (odorology).

 

The abilities of mantrailers vary considerably depending on breed and training. There are reports of mantrailers reliably following trails even after years – across motorways and even through rivers. When estimating the performance of mantrailers, however, police assessments are significantly more conservative. They often speak of a maximum of three weeks, sometimes even only a few days.

 

Nevertheless, mantrailing has proven itself to such an extent that it is now used by some state police directorates and can be regarded in court as a strong indication.

Nationwide Deployment of Human-Scent Tracking Dogs

Kurtz Detective Agency Potsdam and Brandenburg works nationwide with various mantrailers at different locations. If you do not know what to do next, give us a call and make use of the not-to-be-underestimated instrument of the canine sense of smell.

 

You can find a very interesting contribution by Mario Seydel on the subject of mantrailing in the commemorative publication marking the 10th anniversary of the German Society of Criminalistics or in abridged form at www.kriminalistik.info.