Police praise K-9 for finding children lost in woods
A police dog in Virginia is receiving national recognition for successfully finding two children that were lost in the woods after parents and neighbors had spent nearly an hour searching for them.
According to a post on the Powhatan Sheriff’s Office’s Facebook page on Sunday morning, people had been looking for the Powhatan, Va., 8-year-olds for 45 minutes before it started to get dark out and called the police to aid in the search. Luckily, deputies brought K-9 Bane along with them.
“Within 15 minutes of K-9 Bane entering the woods he was able to track and locate the children,” the post read. “As soon as the children were home safe he was back on patrol eager for the next call for service.”
One of the missing children, Chloe Reese, explained the ordeal to Richmond, Va., news station WRIC and why she won’t forget what transpired.
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“My brother and my older friend came looking for us. We thought it was like a chase game and then like we accidentally went too far, and we got lost,” Reese told the outlet. “We didn’t know what to do.”
Bane’s partner, County Sheriff’s Deputy Quinn Pasi, told WRIC just how much it means to the department for people to recognize this success.
“Finding a lost child is satisfying in and of itself,” Pasi said. “But professionally it kind of reassures the training and the time that we put into the program, that it’s actually working.”
The department’s Facebook post states that maintaining the K-9 program is both “expensive and very time-consuming.” Now, hundreds of people from across the nation are reaching out to the Powhatan Sheriff’s Office to see just how they can help to keep the program alive.
“There are things worth having in the budget,” one supporter wrote, “and this is definitely one of them.”
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