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\nHandler – Officer Thomas Nichols<\/p>\n
Beloved police K-9 laid to rest in Amesbury<\/p>\n
The Amesbury Police Department is mourning the passing of a beloved retired K-9. Kaybar was laid to rest Feb. 16 after a stoic battle with canine degenerative myelopathy. \u201cKaybar will be sorely missed by the Amesbury Police Department and his family,\u201d the department said. Kaybar joined the Amesbury Police Department in August 2006. He graduated from the Boston Police Canine Patrol Academy program in January 2007 and the Worcester Police K-9 Unit Narcotics Detection Course in March 2007. The department said Kaybar participated in nearly 800 deployments during his eight year career. Among them he located 62 suspects and endangered people, had 180 drug finds, 92 building searches, 75 arrest assists and 46 public demonstrations. In addition, Kaybar competed on a regional and national level. He most notably won the Arizona Desert Dog Police Dog Field Trials in 2011, besting 78 K-9 teams from around the country and the U.S. military.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Died – 2\/16\/17 Handler – Officer Thomas Nichols Beloved police K-9 laid to rest in Amesbury The Amesbury Police Department is mourning the passing of a beloved retired K-9. Kaybar was laid to rest Feb. 16 after a stoic battle with canine degenerative myelopathy. \u201cKaybar will be sorely missed by the Amesbury Police Department and …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2937,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[44],"class_list":["post-2935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-k9memorial","tag-ma"],"yoast_head":"\n