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deadly force” in, sometimes, potentially deadly situations. Once a police officer fires his weapon, that bullet can never be called back. Unlike a lethal bullet leaving a gun chamber, a trained police dog can be calledoff. Once the dog attacks, it often quickly brings a criminal down to the ground, subdued, and preventing the assailant from escaping, allowing the officers at the scene to handcuff and take-over. The dog, unlike a fired bullet, can then be called back.
Therefore, under such scenarios, it becomes virtually impossible to measure the true value of these canines that often defuse a situation, minimizing the use of “deadly force” which may have spared the officer’s life or even the criminal’s. Without the K-9 option, any standoff – no matter how brief – can quickly escalate to deadly force if that officer feels his life is in danger and, therefore, discharges his weapon.
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While necessity dictates that our police men and women must have life-threatening protection such as bullet-proof vests and firearms, these specialized K-9 Units also comprise a whole new level of protection, for both police as well as citizens. VISUAL DETERRENT WITHOUT CONFLICT
Time after time, the mere physical presence of these fearless animals, barking ferociously and baring its deadly teeth against a tightened leash of their police handler, is often enough to cause a suspect to quickly surrender.
Without question, these K-9 teams have often defused “deadly force” scenarios.
As Executive Assistant Chief, Phillip “Todd” Jarvis, of the San Diego Police Department, proudly declared to the print media: “Not a day goes by where police and their canine partners don’t deescalate volatile situations. They’ve saved countless lives of officers and citizens, alike.” K-9 POLICE WARNINGS
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Often, when entering a darkened warehouse, store, or other dangerous enclosures where an armed intruder may be secretly hiding, an officer will shout his/her authorized warning before releasing their 4-footed K-9 partner, so that the suspect has fair warning and opportunity to surrender without conflict. Different cities with K-9 Units employ different verbiage regarding admonishments prior to releasing their police dogs. Despite these verbal variations from city to city, and even state to state, the K-9 officer’s warnings are basically the same protocol in expressing the same clear, concise language to any suspect.
In “Police K9 Magazine,” the world’s most widely-read K-9 publication which serves K-9 law enforcement officers and supervisors in 54 countries, author Sgt. Jerry Hunter, whose credentials include police K-9 handler and K-9 Unit Supervisor for the King City, California Police Department, states: “There are 3 components to the announcement that officers must state (to a suspect, prior to releasing their K-9 dog). These 3 components are:
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1. State your authority (police, sheriff, etc.) 2. Request for a peaceful surrender. 3. State the consequences for not surrendering (dog bite). (Cited in K9 Magazine, April 9, 2013 issue. info@policek9magazine.com)
Depending on city, county, and state, protocol with K-9 Units can greatly vary. Which means, different cities and states often learn from each other in order to uniformly improve on their own regional K-9 proceedings. Thanks to the brilliant insights of Sgt. Jerry Hunter, K-9 legality regarding proper warnings before releasing a police dog has taken a quantum leap forward.
San Diego County police departments, Sheriff ’s Dept., and CHP, often state these preliminary K-9 warnings more than once, and sometimes in Spanish.
Past court rulings, litigations, and lawsuits have set legal precedence which states that a suspect must be allowed “a The Elite K-9 Units Cont. on Page 3
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