This idea is mooted in India.
Here's an except of the story from TheStar.com.my
New Delhi (AFP) - Stray canines roaming the Indian capital may soon
find themselves attending police training school with civic authorities
planning to turn the animals into security dogs, reports said Saturday.
New Delhi residents have long informally adopted some strays as
watchdogs for their homes and shops and fed them, but this marks the
first formal plan to turn them into municipal security dogs.
...."Our plan is to adopt these strays and train them as guard dogs" to work
with the public security force -- 40 officers have already been
deployed with the city planning to engage as many as 700, ....
..."This initiative is meant to address two issues: take the strays off
the streets, thereby tackling the dog menace, and make the city safer
for residents," added Shrivastava.
There are no recent figures on the number of dogs in Delhi but a 2009
city survey put them at more than 260,000.
The reports did not say how many dogs would be used in the security
scheme or when their training would start.
Dogs will be fed and vaccinated under the plan, welcomed by animal
rights activists.
"This will engage the street dogs with society and also benefit
people," Radha Unnikrishnan, an animal rights activist, said.....
http://www.thestar.com.my/News/Regional/2014/08/10/India-stray-dogs-to-form-security-squad/
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