Clarksville, TN – The Clarksville Police Depart would like to welcome the newest member to its six, four legged, K9 crime fighting team – VADER. Vader is now part of CPD’s K9 unit and is assigned to Officer Casey Stanton.
Officer Stanton previous K9 partner, ARIS, was retired from active duty. Vader is a two year old male Malinois and hails from Europe. He has been teamed up with Officer Stanton who has over 9 years of K9 handler experience and has been in law enforcement for 20 years.
Officer Stanton and Vader just completed an intense six week patrol/narcotics K9 handler training course in North Carolina.
The course gave them an opportunity to bond and learn to work as a team training on such areas as: apprehension techniques, article search/evidence recovery, open area searches utilizing airborne scents to detect hidden suspects, building searches, tracking/trailing over different surfaces, and narcotic detection and obedience techniques.
The combined cost for the purchase of Vader and team training was about $13,900 (paid for through Federal Equitable Sharing Funds).
Officer Stanton and Vader are now working the streets of Clarksville as a team and have already been successful in identifying a vehicle as having illegal contraband inside of it.
Please join us in welcoming Vader to the CPD team.
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