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Special recognition honoring the Lake County Sheriff's K-9 Unit.
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SPECIAL RECOGNITION
WHEREAS, the Lake County Sheriff's Office has ten K-9 teams, with nine canines and their partners working in the Patrol Division and one canine and her partner in the Criminal Investigation Division; and
WHEREAS, each Sheriff's Office Deputy trains, works, and lives with their canine partner, helping the handler and their canine to build a bond from the very beginning; and
WHEREAS, our K-9 units are skilled at tracking to find people, locating narcotics, searching areas to find evidence of a crime or missing items, crowd control, and explosive recognition, and they are also ambassadors of the department, appearing at numerous special events; and
WHEREAS, in 2023 alone, the Lake County Sheriff's Office K-9 units were deployed to 497 incidents. Our K-9 units:
* located 17 missing persons
* apprehended 55 persons who fled from the police
* located 8 handguns
* located 33 concealed electronic devices
* assisted in the seizure of $626,607
* and located an array of illegal narcotics.
WHEREAS, K-9 Odin assisted a local police department with a missing juvenile by tracking her for a mile and a half before she was successfully found; and
WHEREAS, K-9 Axel was called in to assist to help find a man who had disappeared into a wooded area. He was found and taken to the hospital for evaluation; and
WHEREAS, K-9 Tera has assisted numerous law enforcement offices, including a recent search she did with a McHenry County police agency where she found dozens of hidden electronic storage devices with potentially harmful material; and
WHEREAS, K-9 Zeus was called in by a local police department to help with tracking down a special needs child who went missing. With Zeus' assistance they found him and quickly reunited him with his family; and
WHEREAS, K-9 Dax found a missing minor after she left her home. A local police department searched for an hour before K-9 Dax was called ...
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