A very good boy

A Canterbury labrador has gone from profitable police canine to calendar boy in subsequent 12 months’s Police Canines calendar.

A photograph of Rivet and his charming smile is the March 2024 photograph within the well-liked fundraising calendar.

Police forensic photographer Charlotte Dyndal, who snapped the beautiful photograph, mentioned Rivet was her favorite police canine.

‘He is fairly good-looking and he is bought an excellent smile,” she mentioned.

Dyndal’s photograph of Rivet is one among 13 pictures chosen for the calendar after the judging panel sifted via greater than 200 entries of police canine submitted by forensic photographers across the nation.

Her entry was additionally extremely recommended by the judges.

Dyndal is one among six forensic photographers based mostly in Christchurch and covers wherever from Waimate to the Hundalees.

She began as a constable and bought a full-time place as a forensic photographer about 4 years in the past.

“Combining police work with images was a objective,” the senior constable mentioned.

The canine calendar was “good enjoyable and completely different” from the type of images Dyndal normally does for work.

Rivet’s handler Greg Donnelly mentioned Rivet, who turns 5 simply after Christmas, was a “excessive drive” canine who cherished his job.

He is from the police breeding kennels and “loves discovering stuff”.

Rivet works throughout the South Island, as wanted, together with Mid Canterbury. He is skilled to smell out medicine, money and firearms and might detect greater than 18 particular scents.

The golden boy has netted greater than $250,000 in money in raids since July, already beating final 12 months’s tally of round $200,000. He is additionally discovered 4 firearms at gang addresses and “lots of medicine”, mentioned Donnelly.

Donnelly is developing for 40 years within the police drive. He joined in 1984, labored in Christchurch for a short interval, did a 3 12 months stint in Greymouth and returned to Christchurch with the intention of becoming a member of the canine squad. He isn’t seemed again.

“It is the perfect job on the planet,” he mentioned.

The Police Canine Belief calendar options pictures of canine and puppies from the New Zealand’s police canine Part. They value $20 plus postage. All revenue from the gross sales return to the police canine belief.

By Sharon Davis