Since 2004, the K-9 Unit has a new particularly effective tool to assist detectives on crime scenes. A Crime Scene Investigation dog, also named cadaver dog, specialized in the search of dead bodies and blood evidences. Here are the kind of missions on which he is able to conduct :

	SEARCHES FOR LOST PERSONS > the dog is able to detect the dead body of a missing person lost in the mountains or in the woods
	CRASH > the dog is able to detect ejected dead bodies or human rests on scenes of traffic, trains or planes crashes
	ATTACKED PEOPLE > the dog is able do detect the bloody weapon used for the attack or bloody clothes or other evidences contaminated with human blood lost or hidden
	DROWNINGS > the dog is able to detect underwater dead bodies in lakes or rivers
	HOMICIDES > the dog is able to detect hidden dead bodies or contaminated evidences (weapons, clothes) on crime scenes. He is even able to define a crime scene when locating human blood, even if blood was cleaned up. He also conduct searches into suspect vehicle and home to find blood or dead body contamination
	DISASTERS > the dog is able to detect human dead bodies under collapsed constructions (hurricanes, earthquakes)

Bart and Wito followed this formation in the K-9 Academy of the Austrian State Police, in Bad Kreuzen, close to Linz. The Austrian police work since many years with dogs specialized in crime scene investigation and they acquired a great experience. Bart and Wito were certified at the end of a 2 years course.

Crime scene investigation dogs is a revolution in the Swiss police. Imagine that the dog is able to localize an underwater human dead body in a lake until a hundred meters of depth... The depth does not really matter since the molecules released by the cadaver will go up on the surface. More the depth is important, more the shift between the place announced on the surface by the dog and the exact location of the body at the bottom can be large, in particular because of underwater currents. Searches are conducted from a boat on which the dog and his handler take place, lying on the front. As soon as the boat passes above the dead body, the dog announces its presence by scraping the boat.

This work requires an enormous complicity between the dog and the police officer. Contrario of a terrestrial search, the dog cannot move by using his sense to reach the emanation. So, the handler must observe very attentively his companion's nose to see in which direction the dog got the source from the odor.


The dog accelerates detective job and able to close some old open case which remained unanswered because the cadaver of the victim was not discovered for years. CSI dog Wito is able to localize dead bodies buried in a field or in a forest with a very high precision and reliability because he is trained with the SOKKS method who allow him to make the difference between human body of animal cadaver.

At that time, including Wito, only five dogs are formed into CSI work in Switzerland. So, Wito is called on the wild State and even out the swiss territory. Wito was conditionned thru the SOKKS method.

For some people, CSI dog work can seem as a macabre work, however it is essential and gratifying because, at the present time, there is no other technical tool able to localize a dead body. So, in certain cases, the dog will make it possible to a family to be able to make the mourning of a lost father, mother, son or friend.