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City approves Cross Country event and a lease is signed for racing at Optimist Park
To begin the most recent meeting of the Mountain Home City Council, MHPD Officer Jake Dudley presented information about the successes of his partner, K-9 Nero. The Feb. 10 meeting drew a large crowd of citizens with many important items on the agenda.
Officer Dudley proposed getting a dog for the police department in late 2018 and after a lot of research by the department the K-9 Nero was donated to the city. According to Dudley, his K-9 partner was deployed 242 times in 2019 with 71 percent of those ending in positive alerts. At least five of those cases led to search warrants from Nero's work.
"It has been very successful," Officer Dudley said.
Some of those traffic stops resulted in large busts with one netting twice the amount of heroin needed to charge an individual with trafficking, the same is true with a trafficking in methamphetamine case.
The council asked about Officer Dudley's relationship with the dog handler out of the Elmore County Sheriff's Office. Dudley informed them that it has been a great partnership so far and that the officer always answers his calls and shares advice since he has more experience then Dudley does.
Police Chief Scott Connor took the opportunity to publicly thank Officer Dudley for his dedication to Nero. Nero had a long tail at one point that was always knocking into things and causing him issues so the department decided to have it docked. The energetic dog was causing it more damage during the healing process so Dudley spent nearly 24 hours a day with him, keeping it covered and taken care of so the healing process could be done effectively. Saving taxpayers money from additional veterinarian bills.
At the end of the presentation Councilman Daniel Brennan thanked Officer Dudley for his time saying "I appreciate your time, you're a real go-getter on the street."
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