| FOR the first time, a British police |
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| force is being taught to use |
| Now, he’s developed a special two-week |
| traditional native tracking skills to |
| training course for crime scene examiners. |
| catch housebreakers, thieves and |
| The evidence experts aren’t only trained to |
| murderers. |
| recognise vital signs which lay a trail, but |
| Greater Manchester Police have hired | | also to sharpen their observation skills. |
| the services of Eddie McGhee, Britain’s | | By using tracking techniques, scenes-ofcrime |
| answer to Crocodile Dundee. | | officers may be able to pinpoint more |
| Eddie is a former Parachute Regiment | | likely areas to be searched, increasing the |
| Warrant Officer and one of Britain’s top | | chances of finding valuable forensic |
| survival skills experts. He’s lived with | | evidence. |
| pigmies in Africa, the Bedouin in the Sahara, | | Eddie can even tell whether the person |
| Aborigines in Australia and the Ibans in | | being tracked is on the run, injured or |
| Indonesia. | | carrying a weight, such as a body. |
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