The winners named the RCMP in 2025, the puppy competition were announced.
The competition is organized each year to provide names to the puppies raised to the training center for police dog services from the GRC (PDSTC) in Innisfail, in Alta.
Two German shepherd puppies are seen playing in the snow at the training center for the GRC police dog services in Innisfail, Alta.
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This year’s competition took place this year from February 19 to March 19 and attracted more than 10,000 admissions, said the RCMP.
Children aged four to 14 were invited to submit their online name suggestions. All names were to start with the letter “A” and a winner was chosen in each of the 13 provinces and territories of Canada.
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Here is a list of winning names this year, as well as the name of the person who submitted it and the province or the territory in which they live:
- ACE – Maxime Bellencourt (Yukon)
- Argo – Rachael Marche (Newfoundland and Labrador)
- Arctic – Campbell Emmett (Prince Edward Island)
- Anouk – Madison Zamrykut (Manitoba)
- Action – Chance Jerome (Alberta)
- Agent – Samuel Bailey (Quebec)
- ATIM – Brianne Bell (Saskatchewan)
- Ash – Quentin Qammaniq (Nunavut)
- August – Nora Boken (Northwest Territories)
- Anchor – Elisa Zirtilides (British Columbia)
- Alfie – Duncan Hansford (Nova Scotia)
- Adler – Denny Dewar (Ontario)
- Addy – Paisley Leger (New Brunswick)
In addition to having the honor of appointing a puppy, the RCMP will also present each of the 13 winners with a photo of the puppy, as well as a soft dog named justice and a bottle of water from the RCMP.
The RCMP said that it has received more than 10,000 admissions on behalf of this year the puppy competition.
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The names that have not won will always be taken into account for other puppies born this year, according to the RCMP.
The GRC police dog training center is the training center for all GRC police dog teams in Canada.
Dogs that succeed in succeeding in their training can be used for tasks such as follow -up criminals, drug detection, explosives and research and research of avalanche.
The name of next year, the puppy competition should open its doors at the beginning of 2026 and all the names entered will have to start with a “B.”