2009 Annual Awards

2009 Vt. Police K-9 Citizen\Business Award
Dr. Bruce Legallais and the Eastwood Animal Clinic
For your generous financial contributions and outstanding veterinary care
to K-9 Mitch and continued support of the Vt. Police K-9 Program

2009 Vt. Police K-9 Citizen\Business Award
Dr. Kurt Kinney and the Brown Animal Hospital
For your generous financial contributions and outstanding veterinary care
to K-9 Mitch and continued support of the Vt. Police K-9 Program

2009 Vt. Police K-9 Citizen\Business Award
Curt Jacques II and West Lebanon Feed & Supply
For your generous contrbutions of food and equipment and continued support of the Vt. Police K-9 Program

Vt. Police K-9 Dedicated Service Award
VSP Sr. Trooper Michelle Leblanc
For your outstanding dedication to the Vt. Police K-9 Program through your work with the Lacey's Fund Race.

Vt. Police K-9 Dedicated Service Award
Colchester Officer Dave Dewey
For your outstanding dedication to the Vt. Police K-9 Program through your work with the Lacey's Fund Race

2009 Vt. Police K-9 Lifesaving Award
VSP Trooper Eugene Duplissis and K-9 Argus
Your actions on December 31, 2009 resulted in the find of an 11 year old female
that was found freezing cold after more than 3 hours out on a winter night

2009 Vt. Police K-9 Lifesaving Award
VSP Sr. Trooper Dan Trottier and K-9 Dasha
Your actions on August 31, 2009 resulted in the tracking find of a 10 year old austic child found unclothed in a stream who had been missing for several hours on a day where the temperatures declined into the 40s

2009 Vt. Police K-9 Lifesaving Award
U. S. Forestry Service Officer Kim Kinville and K-9 Noscha
Your actions on November 27, 2003 resulted in the find of a missing 17 year old who had been found hypothermic
after separating from her hunting party 12 hours prior in the Green Mountain National Forest.

2009 Vt. Police K-9 Apprehension of the Year
VSP Trooper Eugene Duplissis and K-9 Argus
Your actions of December 31, 2009 resulted in the find of a bank robber who was tracked from the scene of the crime to his motel room where the stolen money was located and the suspect was arrested.

2009 Vt. Police K-9 Patrol Team of the Year
VSP Sgt. Moe Lamothe and K-9 JC
For your outstanding proficiency in the area of police k-9 patrol tactics in both training
and on-duty deployments resulting in a command presence that exemplifies the ideal police k-9 patrol team.

2009 Vt. Police K-9 Drug Detection Team of the Year
Burlington Cpl. Wade Labrecque and K-9 Andre
For your outstanding proficiency in the area of police k-9 drug detection in both training and on-duty deployments resulting in 108 drug finds and over a hundred and twenty thousand dollars in narcotics and currency confiscated.

2009 Vt. Police K-9 Co-Tracking Team of the Year
VSP Sr. Trooper Dave White and K-9 Rolf
For your outstanding proficiency in the area of police k-9 tracking in both training
and on-duty deployments resulting in numerous high-profile tracking finds.

2009 Vt. Police K-9 Co-Tracking Team of the Year
VSP Sr. Trooper Clark Lombardi and K-9 Cairo
For your outstanding proficiency in the area of police k-9 tracking in both training
and on-duty deployments resulting in numerous high-profile tracking finds.

2009 Vt. Police K-9 Team of the Year
Burlington Cpl. Wade Labrecque and K-9 Andre
For your outstanding proficiency in all areas of police k-9 functions in both training
and on-duty deployments resulting in over 250 police k-9 uses.

The Sheepdogs

by: Russ Vaughn2d Bn, 327th Parachute Infantry Regiment101st Airborne DivisionVietnam 65-66
Most humans truly are like sheep

Wanting nothing more than peace to keep

To graze, grow fat and raise their young,Sweet taste of clover on the tongue.

Their lives serene upon Life’s farm,

They sense no threat nor fear no harm.

On verdant meadows, they forage free

With naught to fear, with naught to flee.

They pay their sheepdogs little heed

For there is no threat; there is no need.
To the flock, sheepdog’s are mysteries,

Roaming watchful round the peripheries.

These fang-toothed creatures bark, they roar

With the fetid reek of the carnivore,

Too like the wolf of legends told,

To be amongst our docile fold.

Who needs sheepdogs?

What good are they?

They have no use, not in this day.

Lock them away, out of our sight

We have no need of their fierce might.
But sudden in their midst a beast

Has come to kill, has come to feast

The wolves attack; they give no warning

Upon that calm September morning

They slash and kill with frenzied glee

Their passive helpless enemy

Who had no clue the wolves were there

Far roaming from their Eastern lair.

Then from the carnage, from the rout,

Comes the cry, “Turn the sheepdogs out!”
Thus is our nature but too our plight

To keep our dogs on leashes tight

And live a life of illusive bliss

Hearing not the beast, his growl, his hiss.

Until he has us by the throat,

We pay no heed; we take no note.

Not until he strikes us at our core

Will we unleash the Dogs of War

Only having felt the wolf pack’s wrath

Do we loose the sheepdogs on its path.
And the wolves will learn what we’ve shown before;

We love our sheep, we Dogs of War.

More of our work from the field:

K9 Duke with Inspector Rick Moore assisted with the exterior sweep of a truck. A search warrant was granted, and 33 grams of marijuana was seized from numerous areas in the vehicle.

K9 Dascha with Trooper Dan Trottier located an autistic boy who had wondered off into the woods. The trail was well over 2 hours old. They tracked about a 1/4 mile to a brook. The boy was located 100 hundred yards up stream.

K9 Rufus with Warden Rob Sterling found 3 shell casings that had been fired at a bear, verifying the suspects story that they were legal in taking the bear. Later K9 Rufus was asked to find a shell casing fired 24 hours previous. Other people had looked for the casing with no luck. Rufus searched the area and located the casing in under 30 seconds. K9 Rufus also assisted in locating a patient that had run away. A ¾ mile track through the woods led them to the male who was found sleeping against a tree.

K9 Gally with Trooper Jeff Trudeau assisted on a motor vehicle stop. After a good alert and a search warrant, over 3 ounces of coke was located.

K9 Cairo with Trooper Clark Lombardi assisted another agency with locating an 18 year old suicidal subject. The subject attempted to cut himself with a knife before fleeing into the woods on foot. Cairo tracked from a sleeping bag, through a backyard, over a fence and into a field where he located the subject lying down.

K9 Bricks with Officer Post performed a crowd control function at a bar where a subject had been beaten unconscious. A crowd of 40-70 people refused to disperse, and actually started encroaching the Officers and EMTs. Later they responded to a 2 car crash where a female fled on foot. Bricks tracked over 1/4 mile on pavement and located female that had just been stopped by an officer.

K9 Capone and Officer Trent Martin located a missing 15 year old girl who had gotten into a fight. Capone tracked about 1/4-1/2 mile down the road when he pulled to the front door of a house belonging to a friend. They were called back for a report of the runaway being in the area. Capone started tracking near a woodline and the juvenile popped out of the woods.

K9 Andre with Officer Wade Labrecque alerted on a safe. Inside was $3000.00 cash, a pound and a half of marijuana and some XTC.

K9 Riggs and Sergeant Phelps assisted with a search warrant. K9 Riggs alerted on a safe, which had just over 1/2 pound of marijuana. They also located jars full of buds, another 1/2 pound and $1,800 in cash.

K9 Dascha and Trooper Trottier located a subject who had fled after a traffic stop. K9 Dascha found him crawled up behind a big rock, ¼ mile away.

K9 Kaiser and Officer Mark Redmond assisted with a drug search in a business. K9 Kaiser alerted on a safe, where they found an ounce of marijuana and an ounce of mushrooms. On top of the safe was a cooler that contained nine grams of marijuana.

K9 JC with Sgt. Moe Lamothe had a 1.5 hr old track after a pursuit in 19 degree weather. They tracked both on and off lead through a VERY thick swamp where 2 of the 3 were located separately.

K9 Rolf with Trooper Dave White assisted on a traffic stop. During the execution of a search warrant, they found over 3 ounces of marijuana.

K9 Bricks and Officer Post assisted at a robbery of a gas station. Bricks trailed to the rear of a multifamily dwelling and showed heavy interest on an exterior door which led to a basement. Male suspect was located hiding under piles of junk in the basement.

K9 Tinzer with Sergeant William Dodge assisted in locating a wanted male who fled from a traffic stop into the woods. K9 Tinzer tracked about 200-300 yards into the woods where they found the male hiding behind a tree.