Top Dogs

We have launched our own spin on the popular children's card game Top Trumps, starring our four-legged colleagues.

There are 56 different trump cards to be snapped up, each featuring a different West Mercia Police dog with their statistics and a fact about the canine. 

Top Dogs cards will initially be distributed by Safer Neighbourhood Teams (SNT) to primary school aged children across all three counties in the force area – Herefordshire, Shropshire and Worcestershire.

All Safer Neighbourhood Teams (SNT) will also have cards they can distribute amongst the area they serve. If you see our officers out and about please don't be afraid to approach us and ask if we have any Top Dogs.

How to play Top Dogs

There are 56 cards to collect, so children can use them to swap with their friends, officers or Police Community Support Officers (PCSOs) if they have a duplicate. The aim is to collect all 56 cards.

Any number of people can play.

1. Shuffle and deal all cards face down to each player.
2. Each player holds their cards so that they can see only the top card.
3. The player to the dealer's left starts the game by reading out an item from the top card (e.g. Bark -7 6).
4. The other players then read out the same item on their own card.
5. The player with the best or highest value wins and collects the cards from the other players.
6. All cards are added to the bottom of the deck.
7. The player who won the previous round can then start the next round by choosing a new category.
8. The game continues until one player has all the cards or until a predetermined time limit is reached.