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A police dog, also known as a K-9 (portmanteau of canine), [1] is a dog that is trained to assist police and other law enforcement officers. Their duties may include searching for drugs and explosives , locating missing people , finding crime scene evidence, protecting officers and other people, and attacking suspects who flee from officers.
The Marshall Project’s Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation of police dog deployments found that Black men are overrepresented in the roughly 3,600 K-9 attacks that result in hospitalization. It ...
Rescue dogs. The canine rescuers are a critical element of each US&R Task Force as their keen sense of smell allows them to locate victims that might go undiscovered. The majority of the dog handlers on the Task Forces are civilian volunteers. The dogs are usually considered to be family pets by the handlers when the dogs are not on duty. [3]
Florida v. Jardines, 569 U.S. 1 (2013), was a United States Supreme Court case which resulted in the decision that police use of a trained detection dog to sniff for narcotics on the front porch of a private home is a "search" within the meaning of the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution, and therefore, without consent, requires both probable cause and a search warrant.
Plans for a memorial to honor K-9 service dogs and their handlers is getting closer to becoming a reality. Group pushes for the fundraising goal.
Kansas is poised to increase penalties for killing police dogs and horses after legislators gave their final approval Tuesday to a measure inspired by a suspect's strangling of a dog last year in ...
K-9 (missile), a Soviet short-range air-to-air missile; Kahr K9, a variant of the Kahr K series, a 9×19mm Parabellum semi-automatic pistol manufactured by the American company Kahr Arms; K9 Thunder, a 155 mm self-propelled artillery used by the Republic of Korea Armed Forces; Pusan East (K-9) Air Base, an abandoned air base in Busan, South Korea
In 2004, a police dog died at the Met's training school for police dogs in Keston, south east London, and a police constable was reprimanded. [6] [7] In June 2011 the same dog-handler officer, who had been promoted to sergeant, locked two police dogs in his car for hours on one of the hottest days of the year, and the dogs died from heat ...