Nine California Highway Patrol canine (K-9) units graduated on Friday and are ready to sniff out narcotics and explosives when needed, the CHP has announced.
The ceremony took place in Sacramento and one of the dogs, Sully, will serve the Bay Area’s Golden Gate Division. Sully is a two-year-old Alsatian and is partnered with Officer Eric Rosales.
The dogs, two Belgian Malinois, two Dutch Shepards and five German Shepards, will receive a CHP handler with at least 15 years’ experience, the CHP said. Once the teams are paired up, officers will spend a minimum of eight hours per week training their dog to keep them happy, alert, and at peak performance.
The dogs can also detect human scent, which aids in finding missing at-risk people and children as well as fugitives.
Officer Jaime Coffee of the CHP jokes that the canines get “ruff” training to ready them for their career in law enforcement.
In addition to the Golden Gate Division, the dogs will go to the Northern, Central, Southern, Border, Coastal and Inland Divisions.
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If they’re k-9 cops, where are their badges?
old neighbor was a cop with a K-9
The dog had a Badge…. Worn on the collar….
Badges?! We don’t need no stinking badges!
There was a big kerfuffle like a year back about how police dog attacks are often extremely violent, leading to missing fingers, noses, etc.. Iirc it was front page and detailed one departments evening where the perp lost his nose and ears.
Maybe huge animals with huge knife teeth who have no innate sense of right and wrong besides pleasing their master shouldn’t be deployed against people who are innocent until proven guilty.
I choose the animal with huge knife teeth over the idiot with a huge knife threatening peaceful citizens.
You have a beautiful, childlike view that the people with the weaponized animals are necessarily on the side of justice.
Looking good. Put them to good use.
Congratulations Sully!! There’s lots of work out there!!! And to all the haters out there with your negative comments, how much longer are you going to protect the criminals, we need more K-9’s out there.
Good Doggie!
A nice pup, ready to apprehend all suspects at any cost.
I once tricked a burglary suspect out of store by barking and growling.
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I believe that…
did you jingle your keys to sound like a dog collar?
Hell Yes, someone’s going to get some num num’s. I am going to apply to the CHP, shout off to George Streeter, CHP YVHS R.O.P concord California, yes i am that guy who had 2 roadrunners yellow black stripe, and orange with white stripes, yes yes I am a Mopar guy, and yes its DE lightly tacky but its awesome
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