Miami Beach Police Department opens new K-9 training center

MIAMI BEACH, Fla. – The Miami Seashore Police Division held a particular ceremony Saturday to inaugurate the company’s new Ok-9 coaching middle.

The occasion had a ribbon-cutting ceremony, helicopter flyover, honor guard and police Ok-9 demonstration to herald its grand opening.

“This new facility provides our Ok-9 Unit the flexibility to conduct all of its coaching proper right here within the metropolis slightly than having to shuttle our canine and handlers forwards and backwards to a neighboring division,” stated Miami Seashore Police Chief Richard M. Clements in a information launch. “We’re grateful to the Miami Seashore Ok-9 Knights for the beneficiant donation that made this coaching middle a actuality.”

Peter Catalano and his spouse Dana, founders of the Ok-9 Knights nonprofit, donated all $50,000 value of military-grade coaching tools that shall be utilized by town’s police Ok-9 canine and their handlers on the new facility.

Based on occasion organizers, after serving the neighborhood for a decade, the Miami Seashore K9 Knights have donated 20 police Ok-9s to the division.

Whereas a number of the animals have since retired or handed away, “the Ok-9 Unit’s complete complement of 12 police Ok-9s which can be in service at the moment have been donated by the group,” the information launch said. Two further canine are getting used solely for undercover narcotics work.

“All of us love canine, stated Catalano. “All of us assist our women and men in legislation enforcement.”