Four - legged Holmes
Chinese experts cloned "Sherlock Holmes among police dogs"
Scientists in Yunnan Province in southwest China have cloned a sniffer dog as part of the Sherlock Holmes among Police Dogs project. The scientific program is designed to reduce the training time and financial costs of training pets for service at the border and in the investigative authorities of the People's Republic of China, the Chinese edition of Global Times writes today, March 20.
The dog named Kunxun was cloned from a police service dog of the Beijing Sinogene Biotechnology Company (SBC) and Yunnan Agricultural University with the support of the Ministry of Public Security of the People's Republic of China.
Chinese experts are planning "mass production" of cloned police dogs to significantly reduce training time, SBC deputy CEO told Global Times Zhao Jianping, but added that the cost of cloning remains a serious obstacle on this path.
The Kunxun bloodhound, who is now three months old, will undergo extensive training in drug detection, identifying suspicious persons and searching for evidence and will become a full-fledged police dog when she turns about 10 months old.
Training service dogs usually takes about five years and costs 500 thousand yuan ($ 74.5 thousand) without any guarantees of success, say the staff of Yunnan Agricultural University. At the same time, the amount of expenses associated with the cloning of "four-legged policemen" is not indicated.
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