Ideally, a dog should always heel to his handler when the five-person SWAT team moves in formation, Stokey said. One dog lost points because it moved to the front of the SWAT team line, then moved to ...

A 4-year-old Belgian Malinois nearly died after a barricaded suspect in Gaslamp Quarter allegedly choked him last week.

FRESNO, Calif. -- A South Valley police department said it's devastated by the death of one of its K-9's. The dog's handler found the Belgian Malinois dead in his patrol car on June 20th. Porterville ...

Although the use of SWAT dogs began in the early 1980s in Germany, the practice builds on an ancient relationship. The German dogs are used for counterterrorism, among other things, because they will ...

KANNAPOLIS — In the last class, students got an inside look at the patrol division, which I described a bit in the last installment, and this week we were introduced to the Special Response Team (SRT) ...