Officer David Hurt of the Columbia (SC) Police Department has been suspended without pay for five days for leaving his partner—a Labrador retriever mix named "Turbo"—in a patrol vehicle where the dog was exposed to extreme heat and later died.
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The Lincoln Parish (LA) Sheriff's Office announced that K-9 Boco was shot and killed on Friday during the pursuit of a suspect wanted for second-degree attempted murder.
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Geller said the suspect continued firing at the state police vehicles and "one of the suspect's bullets pierced a K9 trooper's back passenger window and struck a state police canine riding in the back seat compartment."
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An Arkansas State Police K-9 and the suspect he was chasing were both killed in a gunfight on Monday night. Arkansas State Police say that a trooper performed a traffic stop on a vehicle that had reportedly been involved in a chase with law enforcement officers in Missouri.
Read More →The six-year-old Belgian Malinois was reportedly left inside a Hinds County (MS) Deputy's car while he ate lunch at a nearby restaurant.
Read More →In 2018, thanks to a matching donation from Spirit of Blue, the National Police Dog Foundation K-9 Heat Alarm Fund will fund 12 Heat Alarm Grants to law enforcement agencies with the hope of bringing awareness to the issue.
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K-9 Choper was a 5-year-old German shepherd who served with the Conewango Township (PA) Police Department.
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As part of Police Week this year, the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund held the 1st Annual Police K-9 Memorial Service at the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial in Washington DC.
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Phoenix Police K-9 Bane was killed after being deployed to locate a suspect who had hidden in an attic after bailing from a vehicle a few hours earlier.
Read More →ODMP K-9 and the Stanton Foundation have announced that the first grants available through their partnership have been awarded and funds disbursed to two agencies that lost K-9s in 2017.
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