I can't imagine they will ever be able to match a dog's ability to both catch a scent from a huge distance, and then follow that scent for huge distances over various terrains.

Robo attack dogs, like in the movies, I guess.

A couple of mobile robot dogs with their audio/video pickups, networked and directed by a resident “AI” with access to all the video cameras on site and potentially off site, possibly infra red or off spectrum analysis.

I don’t like the police state I’m living in, I’m really not looking forward to the next one.

But slogging the though a swamp, tracking an escaped convict, not sure.

Then again, they probably have drones for that now.

Armed too.

where Patrick McGoohan keeps trying to escape from his island prison, only to be tracked down with giant beach ball like tracking things that can smash rafts and crush people?

Stuff is getting real!

with a paintball gun. Or something else. What then? There will have to be somebody to answer the alarm call.

Somebody close by if they want a fast response.

Somebody who knows how to access the facility, the layout and response procedures.

That isn't likely to be the local deputy sheriffs.