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  • Euclid Police department gets new K-9 officer to carry on fallen officer's legacy
  • How Euclid’s new K-9 honors fallen officer Jacob Derbin’s legacy
  • EUCLID, Ohio (WJW) – A 14-month-old K-9 named Chinook is officially in training with the Euclid Police Department, but his mission is anything but routine.

    Chinook is a tribute to fallen officer Jacob Derbin, who was shot and killed in the line of duty one year ago. At just 23 years old, Derbin had dreamed of becoming a K-9 handler—an ambition cut short far too soon....read more

  • WKYC: 3rd Annual VFR Golf Outing
  • Fox & Friends: VFR Day

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  • Retired K-9 Gifted Guardian Award
    • Ed Hunziker made a bond for life on April 10, 2012, exactly one year to the day Rotar was born.

      A German Shepard and Belgian Malinois mix imported from Europe, Rotar was assigned to him as his K-9 partner at the Geauga County Sheriff’s Office.

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  • See how these local retired police dogs are rewarded
    • But thanks to Knott’s VFR foundation, headquarted in Mentor, it’s Howling Heroes program provides the K9 Guardian Awards which helps canines like Loki’s handler from the Willoughby Police Department continue to live with and care for Loki “until the very end,” Knott said. 

 

 

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