Public Safety Subcommittee
August 17, 2022

Santa Rosa Police Department
K9 Program Update
1 Public Safety Subcommittee Meeting
August 17,2022
John Cregan, Chief of Police
Dan Hackett, Lieutenant
K9 Program Overview
• Santa Rosa Police Department (SRPD) has had a K9
program for approximately 20 years
• 4 K9 teams
• Officer Berg and Kane
• Officer Vercelli and Enzo
• Officer Adams and Ace
• Officer Gonzales and Ghost
• 2 teams work Monday – Thursday
• 2 teams work Friday – Sunday
2 K9 Use
• Building searches
• Person tracking
• Drug detection
• Article location
3 K9 training
• Initial 6-week training for K9 and the handler to begin working together and article detection training.
• Additional 6-week training for drug detection (heroin, methamphetamine, cocaine).
• Additional 5-week training for subject
tracking/detection.
4 New K9 use
• Our newest K9, Ghost, will not be trained in drug
detection
• Instead, Ghost will be trained in firearm detection
• This is in line with SRPD’s commitment to combat violent crime
5 Our newest K9 Team
• Officer Aaron Gonzalez has been with SRPD for 7 ½ years • Assisted K9 team with training for 2 years
• Was selected to the K9 team in July of 2022
• Is currently in his initial training with his K9 partner Ghost 6 Newest K9
Ghost is a 19-month-old
Belgian Malinois
7 Questions?
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