I have met people with their own secret agendas but I’ve never met a dog with one. So when they are working dogs it’s not really like they can become a double agent and secretly work for the local top dog drug dealer instead of the police. This makes them very valuable as officers of the law.
Which is one of the reasons I think it’s really awful that a police dog was stolen and perhaps murdered; Bak really wasn’t likely to be mixed up in gang warfare.
Bak was a 5 year old German shepherd who lived with his handler Sgt Kerri Andrews in Oklahoma. It appears that someone had removed the lock on Bak’s security pen and either took him or just let him escape.
Moore Police Officer Jeremy Lewis said that there was trauma to Bak’s body and as a result they would be performing a post mortem examination.
When someone kills a police officer you tend to find that fellow officers will move heaven and earth to find out who is responsible. Police dogs like Armed Forces dogs are considered to be officers as well and not just a piece of equipment so should anyone be found guilty in the death of Bak they will quickly be made aware that in Oklahoma the death of a K-9 is classed as a felony offence.
"It's kind of hard to explain unless you've been in the situation. The bond between the handler and the dog is remarkable. They realize when the officer puts on his uniform, they go to work. When he comes home and takes off his uniform, they revert back to a family dog," US Police Canine Association National Executive Director Russ Hess told The Huffington Post.
Sgt Kerri Andrews has lost her partner and her pet.
I feel I have to include this last bit of information on the off chance that someone from Oklahoma reads my blog but if anyone out there in the cyberverse knows anything about Bak’s disappearance or death give the Moore Police a call 405-793-5171 There are colleagues and family members who miss him terribly.
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