Sioux County Sheriff’s Office Welcomes New Member

The Sioux County Sheriff’s Department is getting some help from man’s best friend. Neiko is an 18 month old black labrador that will be the second member of the K-9 squad.

“Neiko will be on our K-9 team. He’ll be doing drug detection primarily, and also be able to track. meaning if we have to track a suspect or a missing person, something like that Neiko is also trained in that,” says Sioux County Sheriff Dan Altena.

Neiko’s handler, Deputy Tony Reitsma, is new to the K-9 unit but has wanted to work with the unit for some time.

“This is my first K-9. I’ve done a lot of research before starting and getting Neiko. I did a lot of research in looking at a number of different dogs. So it’s been one of my goals for a number of years,” says Deputy Tony Reitsma.

Training Neiko is a lot of work and differs from how you’d normally train a dog.

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