ADAMS — With money contributed by Adams Hometown Market, Adams cops have a brand-new cops dog, called appropriately, Adam.
The Adams supermarket chain fundraised for Adam, who is 11-months old. He will be changing Kumar, who is 11-years old and a 10-year veteran of the department, as soon as he’s completed his training.
“These dogs are patrol-certified and narcotics-certified, so they can find people, they can find evidence, they can search buildings for people and they can search for narcotics,” Sgt. Curtis Crane, who manages Adams Police’s K-9 system, said. “Kumar is maybe the oldest working dog in the state.”
Kumar still responds to the odor of cannabis, in spite of the drug now being legal in Massachusetts.
“All the dogs coming through now aren’t imprinted on marijuana. There’s four narcotics they’ll locate: meth, heroin, crack cocaine and ecstasy,” Crane said. “Kumar will still alert to marijuana because that’s how we originally trained him when it was still illegal. Once you imprint him on it, you can’t take them off of it. They never forget it.”
On Thursday at the Adams police headquarters, Adam warmly welcomed anybody in his area with his approximation of a hug. He still has the spunk of a puppy, however with the obedience of an adult, as he calmly listened to Crane’s orders.
Both dogs presently cohabit with Crane. They reside in outside kennels due to the fact that cops desire them adjusted to all various environments, have a heated indoor location they can both enter and have their different fenced-in locations outside.
Crane said the going rate for brand-new cops dogs is $8,000-$10,000. Adams Hometown Market likewise promised $2,000 a year for the very first 5 years of Adam’s profession. Adam was imported from the Czech Republic; Kumar is from the Netherlands.
Crane said dogs are hardly ever made to assault a suspect.
“In Mass., it’s very strict, so we have to have a strong hold and these dogs have to be obedient,” Crane said. “Once you send that dog out to bite somebody, and all of a sudden they say, ‘I don’t want to get bit,’ you have to stop your dog on its way down and get them back to you.”
“We never had to have Kumar bite somebody,” Crane included. “They’re trained to bite and hold a suspect until you can get control. But it’s rare.”
Crane went over how North Adams Police, which remains in the procedure of launching a K-9 system of its own, has actually requested help from the Williamstown and Adams cops dogs in the past.
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Adams’ K-9 system is released about 50 times a year.
“These deployments have led to numerous arrests as well as locating missing or troubled individuals,” Crane said.
In addition to that, cops dogs work as casual neighborhood ambassadors. They can typically be seen at public occasions representing the department.
