EDMONTON – A service dog is being praised for being a good boy after helping to arrest a man during an explosion in Tim Hortons, north of Edmonton.
Wednesday at 2:14 a.m., PSD Bady and Cst. Damien Crockett was called in to help patrol officers with an entrance and entrance to a Tim Hortons at 153th Avenue and 99th Street.
The cafeteria closed with an employee inside at the time and police said the man burst in by kicking the glass door until it broke.
The man stole the employee’s cell phone and she bumped into a back room with her landline to call the police.
Police say the man fired the building’s breakers, cutting off all of the building’s power and ending the employee’s 911 call.
When police arrived at the Tim Hortons, they searched the building and found that the man had locked himself in a storage room.
“The suspect refused any negotiation to surrender and leave peacefully,” the sergeant said. Mike Garth, Canine Unit Supervisor. “Then he grabbed a fire extinguisher that was in the storage room and started unloading it to our members under the door.”
Sergeant. Garth said that when officers entered the locked room, the man continued to spray them with the fire extinguisher and that the police service dog (PSD) Bady helped subdue him.
“The dog usually fights any kind of contamination that occurs and will use its nose to find it where we need to use our eyes.”
The man has been charged with multiple counts of assault, as well as assaulting a police officer and assaulting a police dog, the sergeant said. Garth.
The Edmonton Police Service Canine Unit praised PSD Bady on Wednesday morning: “You can’t get in between a cop and his coffee!”
“If there was no COVID, who knows what the agents would have been at Tim Hortons in the first place,” the sergeant joked. Garth.
Sergeant. Garth has been with the canine unit for 10 years and works with an explosion detection dog. He and his colleagues usually answer any “ongoing” call in which a suspect may hide or flee.
“If they run away on foot, well, the dog will follow them. If they hide somewhere where they will be in an advantageous position, where they can see us coming but we can’t see them coming, and the efficiency of the dog, he uses his nose to go to look for him, “the sergeant said. Garth.
The unit has 16 handlers, two sergeants in charge of the unit, as well as a staff sergeant.
Six of the police service dogs are cross-trained in drug detection, with the goal of training all dogs, and the unit also has two explosives detection dogs.
But everyone’s question? Did PSD Bady get a timbit as a reward?
“You know what? Probably not,” the sergeant said. Garth. “Dogs have a strict diet, but I’m not sure of their handler.”