Dutch Shepherds in the News (March2021)

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GSPD: K9 Mara finds suspect during Tuesday morning search
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K9 Mara, a 4 year old Dutch Shepherd that began her career in 2018, led officers to the suspect.

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South Strabane welcomes Tornado
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Tornado, a 1-year-old Dutch shepherd that was imported from Europe, is the township’s first police K9, according to the department’s Facebook announcement Friday. He will be trained to assist officers with drug detection, search and rescues, and general patrol.

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K-9 personnel changes in Oswego County
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The Oswego City Police Department has announced the retirement of K-9 Crixus, a 9-year-old Dutch Shepherd, a patrol and drug-sniffing expert. He’ll still hang around the office with his handler, now owner, but is now off duty.

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New K 9 Officer And Partner Working Hard In Chickasaw County
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Gladney has been with the sheriff’s department since 2010 but recently became the K 9 officer. His first assignment was to bond with ‘Rex” The Dutch shepherd has been with the department for more than two years.

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Kalamazoo Public Safety trains two new police dogs
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The two 18-month-olds, Groot, a German Shepherd and Sledge, a Dutch Shepherd started their initial eight-week training earlier this month for the specialty K-9 unit.

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Family dog used to cuddles from four-year-old girl now waging war on rhino poachers
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Ella Craig’s family reluctantly gave up Rocky the Dutch shepherd because they could not give him the attention he needed.
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Within weeks he was picked to try out for the elite K9 unit in Kenya.

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Replacing Retiring Wheeling K-9 Officer Keeni Sure To Be ‘Ruff’ Task
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A Dutch Shepherd, Keeni was born in St. Albans in 2012. Shortly after being trained in the areas of narcotic detection, tracking and apprehension through Ultimate Working Dogs and the West Virginia Police Canine Association, she was hired by the City of Wheeling in August of 2014 and assigned to her handler Cpl. Jason Martin.

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Police dog gets first big hit as officers seize quantity of drugs
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Federal and state narcotics agents had tracked the car to Detroit and back. With the help of Frankie — a 2-year-old Dutch Shepherd from Mexico and a New Castle police canine — the police confiscated 86.6 grams of suspected cocaine, 30.83 grams of suspected crack cocaine, and a bag containing 140 green and blue suspected ecstasy pills from the vehicle, according to a police incident report.