Police Dog Ihm who helped track down a missing patient in Fife. (Image: Police Scotland Fife Facebook)
A FIFE police dog helped to track down a vulnerable patients who had gone missing in below zeros temperatures at the weekend.
Police Dog Ihm, along with his handler, tracked a man for an hour and a half – and covered 3.5 miles – after he went missing in the Kingdom on Saturday.
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Posting on Police Scotland Fife's Facebook page, officers said: "When a suicidal patient went missing yesterday in Fife, #PDIhm was called in. He and his handler, tracked the man for 1.5 hrs, over 3.5 miles in temperatures of -5 oC.
"They found him hiding, slightly injured and returned him to safety. Great job!"
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