Plans to mass produce police dog clones start in China

Scientists from China's Yunnan province have launched a program to create a dog clone called 'Sherlock Holmes of police dogs'. By mass producing cloned dogs, researchers aim to reduce the time and cost of training police dogs.

China clones 'Sherlock Holmes' police dog to cut training times – report | World news | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/20/china-clones-sherlock-holmes-police-dog-to-cut-training-times-report

China clones 'Sherlock Holmes' police dog to cut training times-state media | Reuters
https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-china-science-clone/china-clones-sherlock-holmes-police-dog-to-cut-training-times-media-idUKKCN1R1079

China begins training first cloned police dog-CNN
https://edition.cnn.com/2019/03/21/asia/china-first-cloned-police-dog-trnd-intl/index.html

The program is jointly run by Yunnan Agricultural University in Yunnan Province and Sinogene Biotechnology Company in Beijing with the support of the Ministry of Public Security of the People's Republic of China.

In fact, already tabloid paper, of and clone the dog has been produced that Kunxun Chinese Communist Party-owned Global Times has reportedly. Kunxun is based on the DNA of a police dog who has been conducting a murder investigation called Huahuangma. German shepherd's Huahuangma is 7 years old and has led 12 cases to resolution under the police in Yunnan Province and has been involved in 20 other investigations so far, the achievements of China's public safety in 2016 It is commended by the club.

The same clone as Huahuangma and 99% DNA, Kunxun, is three months old as of March 2019, but has started training on drug detection, control of crowds, searching for evidence, and as a police dog at ten months of age. It is the prospect of becoming active.

The picture below shows Kunxun. Kunxun was born on December 19, 2018, weighing 540 g and measuring 23 cm long.

China's first cloned police dog, 3-month-old Kunxun, has gun training after arrival at a police base in Kunming, Southwest China's Yunnan Province earlier this month. Https://t.co/DrFoqeBkVy pic.twitter.com/QxHjdj

— Global Times (@globaltimesnews) March 20, 2019

Training for police dogs usually takes as long as five to ten years, and the cost for raising one police dog is as high as 500,000 RMB. Also, spending all this time and money does not necessarily mean that every dog can be a police dog. So we started a program to raise clone police dogs to reduce time and cost, but Sinogene's general manager Zhao Jianping says that the problem of cloning costs has not been solved yet . As of March 2019, the cost per clone police dog has not been disclosed.