EDMONTON – A service dog is praised as a good boy after he helped arrest a man during a burglary in northern Edmonton Tim Hortons.
Wednesday at 02:14 PSD holds Bady and st. Damien Crockett was called in to help patrol officers with a burglary at a Tim Hortons in 153rd Avenue and 99th Street.
The coffee shop was closed at the time with one employee inside, and police say the man broke in by kicking the glass door until it shattered.
The man stole the employee’s cell phone and she ran a back room with the landline to call the police.
According to police, the man tripped the breakers of the building, cutting off all power to the building and ending the employee’s 911 call.
When police arrived at the Tim Hortons, they searched the building and found that the man had locked himself in a storage room.
“The suspect refused any negotiations to surrender and come out peacefully,” said sergeant. Mike Garth, supervisor of the Canine Unit. “He then took a fire extinguisher that was in the storeroom and started unloading it under our door among our members.”
Sgt. Garth said when officers entered the lock room, the man continued to spray them with the fire extinguisher and the police dog (PSD), Bady, helped him get under.
“The dog can usually fight through any form of pollution that will happen, and he’s going to use his nose to find him where we need to use our eyes.”
The man was charged with several burglary and entry offenses, as well as assault on a police officer, and assault on a police dog, sergeants said. Garth.
The Edmonton Police Service Canine Unit praised PSD Bady on Wednesday morning: “You can not get between a police officer and his coffee!”
“If there was no COVID, who knows what officers would have been at the Tim Hortons in the first place,” jokes sergeant. Garth.
Sgt. Garth has been at the dog unit for ten years and works with an explosion dog. He and his colleagues usually respond to calls “on the go” where a suspect can hide or flee.
“If they run away on foot, the dog will find them. If they hide a place where they will be in an advantageous position, where can we see them coming, but we can not see them coming ?, and the effectiveness of the dog, use his nose to go look for him, “said sergeant. Garth.
The unit has 16 handlers, two sergeants in charge of the unit, as well as a personnel sergeant.
Six of the police service dogs were cross trained in drug detection, with the aim of crossing all dogs, and the unit also has two explosive detection dogs.
But the question in everyone’s mind? Did PSD Bady get a chance as a reward?
“You know what? Probably not,” said sergeant. Garth. “The dogs have a strict diet, but I do not know what his handler is.”