On 8/5/2024, members of the Bates County Sheriff’s Office and volunteers were invited to present our “Animals in Service” program for a youth camp at Camp Keirsey outside of Amsterdam. The youth were educated on how these animals serve our community and the accomplishments they have achieved since being in service.
Captain Shaffer presented a K9 demonstration with K9
Falco. Falco is a duel purpose patrol
dog. He is able to find the odor of
narcotics, track and detain people and do article searches. Falco did a couple
of demonstrations for the kids and Captain Shaffer answered questions about
police work and K9 work.
Detective Stockdale presented patrol horse MO. Prior to MO becoming a patrol horse for the
Sheriff’s Office he was certified in search and rescue. MO has been to many parades, community events
and is utilized in search and rescue here in Bates County.
The kids got to hear how each of these animals are unique
and play a role in the operations of the Sheriff’s Office. Just like patrol cars, drones, UTVs, ATVs
and ground searchers each tool has an appropriate time and place to be
used.
Our volunteers also brought a paint horse called Sarge,
owned by Cameron Anderson and a buckskin horse, named Draco owned by Jacie
Warren. Both of these horses are
acquainted with the program and associated with the Volunteer Sheriff’s Posse
Program.
The kids received rides on the horses and were able to love
on them.
The purpose of our Animals in Service Program is to show the
next generation that there are many programs within the Law Enforcement Career
that they can pursue. Our hopes is that
we sparked a little law enforcement flame in one of the kids to be the next
generation of law enforcement.
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