Summary: Pam Bruce: Crime Scene Investigator and Dog Show Judge<br> Pamela Bruce, Canadian and AKC judge.<br> <br> Canadian and AKC judge Pam Bruce recounts her background working as a police investigator for the elite Special Victims Unit in Toronto in part two of her interview with host Laura Reeves. Bruce, a cancer survivor herself, (10 years ago in April she was given three weeks to live) reminds us that dog shows are not curing cancer or solving world peace.<br> Dog people are fascinating<br> Bruce was a real-life Mariska Hargitay in Toronto. Her professional life and dog life frequently intertwined in cases in which <a href="http://ebooks.dnmagazine.us/volume_03/issue_49/mobile/index.html#p=114" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Dr. Richard Meen</a> (CKC/AKC judge and long-time breeder) was called as an expert witness in cases dealing with young offenders in which she was the lead investigator.<br> “When I first came on (police work), there was a horse and a woman assigned to every platoon,” Bruce said. “Women were assigned to strip searches, sex assault and child abuse cases. They gave us the janitor's closet to change in.”<br> Bruce spent only a year in uniform. Fascinated by sex offenders and dangerous offenders, she went back to school and specialized in DNA.<br> <br> In another dog show and professional crossover, Bruce finds her “resting bitch face,” while useful in interviewing dangerous offenders, comes across as stern in the show ring.<br> <br> “I learned it in interviews,” Bruce said “because you’re going in with dangerous offenders – all male – who know they can take you on physically, but are really interested in taking you on mentally.”<br> Do the research<br> “I am frequently shocked by the fact that exhibitors don’t know who they’re showing to. They don’t do their research to find out what the judge’s background in dogs is,” Bruce said.<br> <br> “I have never once enabled anyone to speak badly to me about any dog,” Bruce noted. “And I’ve never denied a dog based on who’s on the leash – it doesn’t work that way.”<br> <br> Listen to part one of the <a href="https://puredogtalk.com/pam-bruce-memories-and-the-essence-of-style-in-purebred-dogs-pure-dog-talk/">interview</a> from last week.
