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| Auburn Police K9 Unit |
The Auburn Police Department's K-9 Unit is comprised of two handlers and two highly trained German Shepherd partners. Officer A. Kalet is assigned to K-9 Rony, a 5 year old sable German Shepherd originally from Czechoslovakia. The K-9 team completed a 10 week patrol and tracking course at the Onondaga County Sheriff's Office K-9 Academy in the spring of 2004. The K-9 Team later completed an additional 6 week narcotics detection course in the fall of 2004. At this time the K-9 Team is currently New York State certified in both fields of work.
The Auburn Police Department's second K-9 team is Officer Carnicelli who is assigned to K-9 Rayn. Rayn is a 3 year old black German Shepherd originally from Czechoslovakia. The K-9 team also completed a 10 week patrol and tracking course at the Onondaga County Sheriff's Office K-9 Academy in the spring of 2007 with an additional 6 week course for narcotics detection in the fall of 2007.
The two K-9 teams are currently assigned to the 2000-0400 (8pm-4am) shift which allows them to maximize their availability to the two busiest patrol shifts. When the K-9 teams are not on regular patrol duty they are on an on call status and can respond from their homes to scenes county wide within minutes. In addition to their regular patrol duties, the handlers and their partners continuously train on a monthly basis in order to maintain the dogs efficiency in their selected areas of work.
The Auburn Police Department's K-9 team provides back-up support and other assistance to the uniformed patrol division who respond to calls for service and calls reporting crimes in progress. When called upon to do so, a K-9 team will search buildings, houses, streets, or wooded areas for suspects, missing persons or in an effort to detect illegal narcotics. A K-9 team will also lend it's specialized search skills and back-up support to the department's other specialized units during high risk search and arrest warrant executions. The K-9 teams support often times will increase Officer safety and will also increase the probability that a suspect will be apprehended. A K-9 teams is also dispatched to calls for service as the primary patrol unit when the uniformed patrol Officer assigned to a particular area in the City of Auburn is unavailable to take the call for service.
The Auburn Police Department's K-9 Teams also conduct numerous presentations throughout the year at various community events and schools where they will display the teams skills and abilities and give lectures about the various duties and responsibilities of the teams.
Officer A. Kalet, Auburn Police Department K-9 Handler
