 new members of our Queensland Police Service are just starting their journey. They're eight weeks old, nine puppies and they're just about to go out into the brave new world with their foster carers. For eight weeks of age they go into a foster program and every three days every month they must come back here so we can start their development, their nose work, their bite work and the foster carers help us out by socialising the dogs in the big wide world. The Queensland Police Service is renowned for its breeding program. You can see the happy little puppies here but they are also of a very high standard and there are a number of jurisdictions around the Asia Pacific who look to the Queensland Police Service dog breeding program for its expertise. Sometimes you see them at around 12, 16 week old. You can start to tell from that age that this one is pretty special. That's a very serious name wrapped up, very serious. One in two dogs that we breed won't make the grade, we basically take the best of the best. If they haven't got the diabetic traits in bite work and the aggression, they usually go into family homes because they're usually really good tracking dogs, they love chasing the ball, they make good pets. That partner with their long term partner at around 16 months of age at the start of a police dog training course and they're with that handler for the remainder of their working career and beyond. Nine out of ten dogs that retire at around the eight or nine year old mark stay with the handler. It's a lifelong commitment from the handler.