Crime & Safety

Trumbull K-9 Teams Get National Certification

The K-9 teams can now been certified for building searches, evidence recovery, urban tracking and other tasks.

Trumbull’s two K-9 units are now certified at the state and national level for a variety of police-related tasks.

Officers Lee and Carlson along with canines Cyrus and Storm began class in November and finished mid-February.

They are trained for building searches, evidence recovery, criminal apprehension, rural and urban tracking and narcotics detection.

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So far there have been two separate incidents where drugs were detected by the K-9s.

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