K9 Team Profiles

Axell

Axell

Officer Erik Newhouse and K-9 Axell, a 2 year old German Shepherd from the Czech Republic, recently passed standards as a certified patrol dog team by the Oregon Police Canine Association (OCPA).  Officer Newhouse and Axell is the patrol K-9 team with the police department trained in tracking suspects, locating hidden persons in structures, suspect apprehension, and locating items with human scent on them.

Axell was purchased by the McMinnville Police Department from Adlerhorst Kennels in Riverside, California.  Officer Newhouse and Axell attended a 250 hour initial training course taught by Officer Shawn Gore of the Portland Police Bureau.  Officer Gore is a Master Trainer with the OPCA.

Shortly after passing standards, Officer Newhouse and Axell assisted the Yamhill County Sheriff’s Office in an interrupted residential burglary by performing a track for the suspect.  During Axell’s track, he located a backpack that contained stolen property from the burglary. The backpack would not have been located without the assistance of Axell.

Jack

Jack

Officer Josh Eckroth and K-9 Jack (nicknamed Chewy), a 2 year old Labrador Retriever mixed breed, recently passed standards as a certified narcotic detection team through the Oregon Police Canine Association (OCPA).

Jack was donated to the McMinnville Police Department by OPCA Master Trainer, Mack Reid.  Reid owns and operates his own canine training company known as Reid Detection Team Training.  Reid acquired K-9 Jack from the Yamhill County Dog Control and believed he would make an excellent drug detection canine.

Officer Eckroth was assigned to Jack as a narcotics detection handler in February 2018.  Since then, Jack and Officer Eckroth attended a 200 hour training course in which Jack was trained to be a passive response drug detection dog. Jack is trained to detect heroin, methamphetamine, and cocaine. Once Jack detects a drug odor, he will sit or lie down to indicate to his handler that a scent is present.

Tucker

Tucker

Officer Mike Maierhofer is currently partnered with Narcotics Detection K9 Tucker. K9 Tucker is a German Shepherd from the USA, bred in West Virginia from champion German Shepherd bloodlines. K9 Tucker was selected after an intensive selection process from Vohne Liche Kennels in Indiana. Vohne Liche Kennels is a premier nationally recognized K9 training facility that provides K9s of various disciplines to over 5000 law enforcement and government agencies including the National Security Agency (NSA), Pentagon, U.S. State Department, Armed Forces, as well as local police agencies.

K9 Tucker was initially imprinted as a dual purpose Patrol/Narcotics K9. Ofcr. Maierhofer and K9 Tucker are scheduled to attend Narcotics Detection training conducted by Beaverton Police Department K9 training Ofcr. Tony Bastinelli. Ofcr. Bastinelli is a Patrol/Narcotics trainer with the Oregon Police Canine Association (OPCA), the certifying body for police service dogs in the state.

 

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