A provincial police dog handler who arrived at the scene of a car accident between two young Quebec girls and their father in July 2020 says he had difficulty doing his job because the scene was contaminated by first responders who Already searching.
Stephen Ranger, a member of the Provincial Police Canine Unit, says that due to the search many people at the scene Martin Carpentier and his daughters Romi and Nora, his dog had trouble getting a scent on them.
After crashing his car on Highway 20 the night of July 8, Carpentier fled the scene and killed 11-year-old Nora and six-year-old Romy in woods near Saint-Apollinaire, Que., southwest of Quebec the next day. City. After this he killed himself.
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Ranger told Coroner Luke Malouin on Wednesday that he could not fault police and firefighters for conducting a detailed search around the vehicle, but that it complicated their job.
He said that the work of a police dog is not shown on television, where the dog smells an article of clothing and begins to search.
The ranger says the dog searches for human scent, but if too many are present, it won’t know which direction to go.
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