Died 9\/4\/16
\nHandler – Trooper Genoway<\/p>\n
Washington State Patrol K-9 narcotics officer dies from cancer<\/p>\n
WSP spokesperson Trooper Rick Johnson, who had worked alongside Genoway and Ice, called the K-9 officer \u201chigh energy.\u201d \u201cYou would get near the car \u2026 and he would bark like he was going to jump out and attack you, but he wouldn\u2019t hurt anybody,\u201d Johnson said. \u201cHis job, he did it very well.\u201d Three narcotic detection teams were deployed in 1998 to counties identified by High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (HIDTA) in the central Puget Sound region and Yakima. Because of the program\u2019s success, eight additional narcotic detection teams were added to Washington\u2019s remaining HIDTA counties. According to the WSP Canine Training Unit, the narcotic teams provide support for the field force, local task forces, and federal agencies on multi-jurisdictional warrants. As a narcotics dog, Ice had different responsibilities than the nine bomb-sniffing K9 officers that graduated for the WSP on Friday. K-9 officers live with their handles but are not treated as normal family dogs until after the dogs retire and are adopted by the handler as a pet, Johnson said. This was Trooper Genoway\u2019s second K-9 partner and he\u2019s expecting to team up with another. \u201cThere\u2019s definitely a huge bond between the handler and the dog,\u201d Johnson said. \u201c\u2026\u201cIt\u2019s been an emotional few days or week for (Genoway) but he\u2019ll definitely get through this and he\u2019s got a lot of support around him.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Died 9\/4\/16 Handler – Trooper Genoway Washington State Patrol K-9 narcotics officer dies from cancer WSP spokesperson Trooper Rick Johnson, who had worked alongside Genoway and Ice, called the K-9 officer \u201chigh energy.\u201d \u201cYou would get near the car \u2026 and he would bark like he was going to jump out and attack you, but …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6637,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[52],"class_list":["post-6635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-k9memorial","tag-wa"],"yoast_head":"\n