Local Unit

A few weeks back I came across a post that The Warwick Police had on their FaceBook page about the wonderful K9 program they have that been in place since 2012. Just wanted to thank the team for their hard work!

Here is some material the post  mentioned  some of  K-9 Viking and K-9 Fox success so far they have 497 narcotic searches, 53 building searches, 97 human tracks, and 72 demonstrations.  Since the K-9’s have been in place they have had 10 apprehensions and only 3 required a “bite”.  According to the Warwick Police that is a 70% non- injury rate. Awesome Job 

K-9 Viking and K-9 Fox have been responsible for seizing more than 150 pounds of marijuana, 34 pounds of heroin, 36 pounds of cocaine, meth, ecstasy, molly and over thousands of illegal prescription pills off the streets.  In drug money they recovered $900k dollars. According to the post from WPD that was written. 

K-9 Viking
Photo Credit: Bethany Steere Photography 

A little bit of information about the WPD K-9 unit  mentioned in the post is that the unit is housed under the Community Police Division “because children just seem to love them” according to Warwick Police. The K-9 team is made up by Officer Steere who is partnered with K-9 Viking and Officer Wells partnered with K-9 Fox.

K-9 Fox
Photo Credit: Bethany Steere Photography 

Keep up the great work WPD K9 Team!! 

Here is a video of Seekonk's PD K-9 Kilo looking for drugs . An example of what the dogs do.