Police dog wins Crufts award for saving life of missing man

A police dog who saved a man's life in Perthshire has been presented with a special award at Crufts Dog Show. Cocker Spaniel Mac and his handler PC Andy Inglis were awarded the National Police Chiefs' Council (NPCC) Police Dog Action of the Year after finding a man who had been missing for 17 days. Victim detection dog Mac accompanied Inglis on a 30km five-day search for the man, who it was initially thought might have died. The man was found alive, but extremely weak, under a fallen tree and tarpaulin after Mac ran down a steep embankment and alerted rescuers. Inglis and Mac received their award in the main arena at Crufts held in Birmingham on Sunday. Inglis, 50, said he was "really proud" of Mac, who lives with him in Larbert with his wife, three children, and the officer's other police dog, a German Shepherd called Arlo. Inglis said: "The nature of my job is I'm expecting to find someone deceased, so when they're alive, it's a completely different emotion. "Dogs are naturally inquisitive so even though he's not trained to find a living person, he did it by instinct." Following an investigation in March 2025 to find a high-risk missing person, the man was believed to have travel