On November 15th,
2017, Marysville Police K-9 Hawkeye is officially retiring.
Hawkeye, a 9-year-old German
Shepard, joined the Marysville Police Department late 2009 and became certified
as a tracking police K-9 in January 2010. During his eight years of service,
Hawkeye was deployed over 130 times, and had 78 successful tracks. Hawkeye
completed over 3500 hrs. of continuous training during his service, and
participated in countless demonstrations, and provided positive education and
engagement with multitudes of students and citizens. Always a favorite at
National Night Out and school-related events, Hawkeye will be deeply missed.
Hawkeye’s retirement also means
that Officer Dreyer begins a new phase of his career. After giving 17 years to
the Marysville Police Department as a K-9 handler and trainer, it would be fair
to say that the K-9 program—past, present, and future—will be Officer one of
Officer Dreyer’s enduring legacies at the Marysville Police Department. He was
recently selected to the Marysville Police Department’s Training Division, and
has hit the ground running, exactly as he did after becoming a dog
handler.
Hawkeye was Officer Dreyer’s
second K-9. His first was K-9 Radar, both named after characters from the TV
series M*A*S*H. Radar was one of the first two K-9 teams in the Marysville
Police department. Between the two K-9’s Officer Dreyer had over 560
deployments and over 7600 hrs in training with the two K-9’s.
Bringing working Police K-9s to
the city of Marysville was largely the result of Officer Dreyer committing to
hundreds of hours of research, training, and hard work. He was also
instrumental in the training and development of our new K-9s, Copper and
Steele, who will continue the mission of the Marysville Police K-9 Division as
Dual-Purpose Working Dogs, while Hawkeye enjoys his retirement at Officer
Dreyer’s home.