La Plata County Sheriff's K9 Unit

good good this is my best friend he's I I talk to him more than my wife I hang out with him more than my wife because he's with me at work he's with me at home he's just my he's just he's a cool dude he's my best friend I work with him every day they're like our children almost yeah it's it's cool unbreakable Bond [Music] my name is Cody basic um I have been working with the sheriff's department for about four years and I'm a canine Handler and my name is Cody Hallman I've worked for the Sheriff's Office almost four years now and I am also a canine Handler so my dog's name is Phoenix he is a four-year-old Belgian Malinois he is imported from Mexico um yeah he lives with me full time and we always have fun What drew me to become a canine Officer is something that I've kind of always wanted to do a lot of the focus from the community is on dogs you know it's always an exciting thing what are the dogs doing you know why are they out there that kind of thing thank you how's it going oh my dog's name is Ozzy he's a five-year-old German Shepherd he's important to check in Europe and we've been on the street together since July of 2020. so it was a little bit different for for his dog since his dog was or had already been trained um when I started with Phoenix he was he literally only knew narcotic odors um so he was imprinted on those narcotic odors and then kind of what it was up to me to do was to focus on his behavior change and what it looks like when he's alerting to those specific narcotic odors are you ready all right sir Terry foreign [Music] foreign I've had wait I haven't had any apprehensions when everybody sees Phoenix I typically you know give me the handouts and I'll put them on kind of thing this area is a high trafficked area for Narcotics it's the shortest route from Phoenix to Denver a lot of Narcotics come out of Phoenix majority of the products go out of Phoenix so one one of the big things is you know we're able to send the dogs into dangerous situations and it you know it is a it is a loss of a life if our dogs get hurt or killed you know they hold cinnamon or in within us but um at the end of the day they are a tool um and that tool is to keep officers safe whether that's you know a break-in where there's broken glass we don't want to send people in we'll send the dog in kind of thing in that way it keeps everybody safe and hopefully the dog will locate whoever's inside being five he's getting older um I'm keeping an eye on him his his hips German Shepherd's hips start to fizzle out at that age I'm keeping on that I'm with my veterinarian I'm always making sure he's good to go um and but I was already it's kind of making me sad but there's already talks of funds for the next three Place Aussie and it's just like it just happens there are dogs so I don't see anything happening with them unless he gets hurt at work so I hope I hope to get like two more years out of them 24 43 good if I run code to get up there yeah that's fine um no way so the the crazy thing to me is is their olfactory um system which is their nose um they're they can smell about isn't it 30 000 times better than humans I mean it's significant very very significant um another fun fact that people might not know is dogs can smell in directions through different nostrils so um you know when we're out on a on an area search for a human and a head snap to the left something on the left is actually catching their attention it's not that they heard something it's not they smelled something to the left um instead of the right and then we know that they're on something to the left the dogs are used as a less lethal means of force um and they are the only less lethal force that can actually be called back you have bean bags once they once they come out of the end of the muzzle they can't be taken back tasers same thing once they're deployed they can't be taken back um you know anything that's fired you can't hey come back it's it's on its way um that person decided to give up when Ozzy was getting close and Ozzy literally ran around the guy and came back like the dogs aren't out there just to Nuke and bite everything they have to do a job they want to please us and if they please us they get their toy that's what they wanted their toy yeah I joke around because he's he's quite the handful so I always joke around that I'm gonna I'm gonna at the end of their careers the county gives us an opportunity to buy them for a dollar and then we take them through retirement until they pass um I always joke around that I'm gonna pay for it and hand the leech to my sergeant um but I there's no way I could do that I guard children almost yeah it's cool

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Length: 5min 55sec (355 seconds)

Published: Wed Feb 01 2023