OPD celebrated new K-9 training course

Published on November 14, 2018

The Ocala Police Department is celebrating their brand new K-9 training course that was built and delivered, free of cost, by the team at Lowe’s on Highway 40.

Before this course, the department didn’t have anything like it.

“They are there to simulate things that we might see on the road, things that we might encounter,” said Officer Gerard T. King, Jr.

It’s not every day that a K-9 has to jump through the window of a house to track down a person but now, they’ll be prepared when they have to.

“It is just him having that confidence in himself that he can do it, and it also helps me because I have confidence that he has the ability to do it,” King said. Read More