K-9 Handler Essential to Fullerton PD
On a night when the Fullerton Police Department’s traffic unit was conducting a drug search on a tow-yard-kept pickup truck, Officer J. Boline was called out to assist.
“They went through this car like you wouldn’t believe (and) couldn’t find anything; there was just plain nothing in the car at all, other than the gun that they had found under the seat,” said Boline.
That’s when Blitz, the police-commissioned German shepherd assigned to Boline, was sent in.
Blitz began alerting the officers of a drug presence somewhere in the vehicle. Boline noticed the bed of the truck had new paint and discovered it was actually a false floor. The real bed was two or three inches underneath; this vehicle was used to transport drugs, and testing swabs confirmed there was indeed cocaine residue in the hidden compartment.
Only there were no drugs in the truck that night.
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Canine cops ‘get the job done’
Police officers come in all shapes and sizes, creeds and colors. Some even come with four legs, cold noses, and a tendency to lick their partners.
The Pct. 4 Constable’s K-9 division is supervised by Lt. Kenneth Key. Under his command are three patrol and narcotic dogs and three Deputy K-9 handlers: Deputy James Glaze and Cir; Deputy Ted Dahlin and Croso; and Deputy Greg Thomason and Bohdy.
Constable Ron Hickman said he is proud to have K-9 officers that get the job done.
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Man’s Best Friend, From Dog to K-9
State police in Huntington are mourning the loss of one of their K-9s killed in the line of duty. The dog was fatally shot during a 10-hour standoff, but saved the life of a trooper.
Once a K-9 is fully trained and ready for duty, they spend every second with their handler, even go home with them, to help develop that very important relationship and bond. So when one is hurt or killed, it’s like losing a partner.
“A dog’s number one tool is its sense of smell,” says Sergeant Ron Arthur, director of the West Virginia State Police K-9 Unit. “Its number one usefulness is as a locator.”
That is why K-9s are used in so many different ways to assist police whether it be for a narcotic bust or tracking a missing person.
Sergeant Ron Arthur says from day one of training he develops a very special bond with the dogs.
“Every dog I’ve worked with I feel like is my partner,” says Sgt. Arthur.
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Top Dog Awards for Alexandria K-9s and Trainers
K-9 Deputy Sheriff John O’Hara (second from left) and Alexandria Police K-9 Officer Carlos Rolon were honored at the annual awards dinn
er of the United States Police Canine Association held this month at Bolling Air Force Base.
Deputy O’Hara and his dog, Sherman, finished first in the explosives ordinance detection trials held last June.
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K-9s Make A Comeback At West Deptford PD
In the course of duty for West Deptford police officers, there’s always the potential for danger: the suspect who gets out of control, the armed robber who flees into the night, the home burglar who may or may not still be inside.
That’s where K-9 officers Michael Franks and Joe LaMalfa and their dogs, “Judge,” a 5-year-old German shepherd, and “Mako,” a 2-and-a-half-year-old German shepherd/Belgian Malinois mix, come in.
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Chatham County deputies lead statewide explosives-detecting K-9 training
With his handler in tow, the 3-year-old Arco, a German shepherd, bounded into the third-floor motel room.
Following both verbal and physical commands from Matt Tout, an investigator with the Macon Police Department, Arco ran his nose around the room’s two beds before moving toward the bathroom in the back.
Suddenly, Arco turned and paced back toward the middle of the room.
Inches away from the door that conjoined the room to its neighbor, the K-9 officer sat down, pointed his nose directly at the door and turned around to look at Tout.
“He smelled the door seam and got right on it,” Tout said. “He was like, ‘Here it is, Dad.’”
State Hospital job prepared Randall Brandt to be a Portland police officer
Randall Brandt remembers the time when a teenager swung a pool cue at him, just missing his nose.
As a psychiatric aide supervisor at the former Dammasch State Hospital, he learned how to handle violent patients. “I just sat there and talked the kid down,” he said.
“We didn’t have the tools that a police officer does,” he said. “We had to deal with it in other ways, so you kind of learn.”
Now a Portland patrol officer, Brandt, 60, uses the skills he picked up several decades ago when he encounters people in need of such help on the streets.
He says the jobs aren’t that different.
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Marquette County K-9 officer retires
After eight years of working his beat, the furriest member of the Marquette County Sheriff’s Office is transitioning to a life of tennis balls, chew toys and treats.
Coal, the office’s 10-year-old black Labrador retriever, and the county’s only K-9 officer, retired in December, according to a news release issued Thursday.
“It’s always nice to have a partner when you’re working,” said Coal’s handler, Detective Sgt. Shane Heiser, who spent 24 hours a day with Coal while the dog was part of the force. Coal’s new routine as the Heiser family dog is much less regimented.
“Now he just stays home and eats dog biscuits,” Heiser said.
County cop and K9 partner get national award
A New Castle County Police officer and his canine partner recently received the 2010 Award for Canine Excellence from the American Kennel Club.
Senior Corporal Mark Tobin and his police dog Nike accepted the award at a ceremony last month in Long Beach, California. The award is given in honor of a dog that “performs some exemplary act that significantly benefited a community or individual.”
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Scranton Police lose one of it’s finest
When then-Scranton police Officer James Pappas arrived in Virginia in 2003 to pick out his K-9 partner, he was more than a little disappointed.
“I went down with this preconceived notion that I was going to be teamed up with Rin Tin Tin,” Detective Pappas said.
He expected a fierce German Shepherd of at least 100 pounds, but Brix, hardly recognizable as a police dog at 65 pounds, did little to inspire confidence in the first-time K-9 officer.
“When I first saw Brix, I was extremely disappointed,” Detective Pappas said. “He was scrawny, skinny and he looked like he’d never had a bath – ever.”
Detective Pappas had to have his former partner put down Tuesday due to an irreversible neurological disease.
But in the seven years of service Brix put in before his retirement in 2010, the gentle German did much more than put on a few pounds of muscle.
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