Handler – Sgt. Rob Hans<\/p>\n
Salem County Sheriff\u2019s K9 Passes Away<\/p>\n
K-9 Ben, a member of the Salem County Sheriff\u2019s Office, has died. \u201cWords seem inadequate to express our feelings of grief by the men and women of Salem County Sheriff\u2019s Office in our loss of this amazing K-9 Officer,\u201d stated Sheriff Charles M. Miller in a news release. Officials say K-9 Ben served with his partner, Sgt. Rob Hans, as an explosives detective specialist for 10 years. Ben attended the New Jersey State Police K9 Academy and graduated in July, 2004. Officials say he was a member of the Detect and Render Safe Task Force. Over the course of Ben\u2019s career, he worked various presidential details, the Miss America Pageant and the governor\u2019s conference. He responded to over 900 bomb threats statewide, and hundreds of proactive sweeps and initiatives, according to officials. In addition, officials say Ben has visited many schools, nursing homes, day care centers, churches and other community functions where he and his partner have provided educational demonstrations on bomb and explosive detection. Ben retired on December 31, 2013.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Handler – Sgt. Rob Hans Salem County Sheriff\u2019s K9 Passes Away K-9 Ben, a member of the Salem County Sheriff\u2019s Office, has died. \u201cWords seem inadequate to express our feelings of grief by the men and women of Salem County Sheriff\u2019s Office in our loss of this amazing K-9 Officer,\u201d stated Sheriff Charles M. Miller …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1033,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[15],"class_list":["post-1031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-k9memorial","tag-nj"],"yoast_head":"\n