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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.
Police dogs are in widespread use across the United States. Police dogs are operated on the federal, state, county, and local levels and are used for a wide variety of duties, similar to those of other nations. Their duties generally include detecting illegal narcotics, explosives, and other weapons, search-and-rescue, and cadaver searches. [34]
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
Heartbreaking footage shows the moment that a wounded police dog was carried from the scene by five fellow officers after being injured during a shootout with a fugitive in Texas.. The K-9 officer ...
The Police Dog Unit, (Abbreviation: PDU; Chinese: 警犬隊) established in 1949, is a specialist force of the Hong Kong Police under the direct command of the Special Operations Bureau. [1] Its role is in crowd control , search and rescue and poison and explosive detection .
Apollo was a German Shepherd born around 1992, who was in service with the K-9 unit of the New York Police Department (NYPD). [4] In 1994, he graduated from the NYPD Canine Special Operations Division, and was one of the first dogs to learn search and rescue. Apollo passed Type-II training in Florida in 1997, and Type-I in Indianapolis in 1999.
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.
A man and a remarkable Alsatian/German Shepherd dog make surprising crime stoppers in this dramatic action/adventure series.. The show is about the life of a special breed of cop - Canine Officer Hank Katts; a strong, self-made survivor from immigrant stock who has fought his way up from a tough steel mill town - and his canine partner who fight crime and the forces of evil.