TUCSON, Ariz. (KGUN) — The Tucson Police Department is delighted to welcome K9 Zona as one of its newest team members.
Zona is an English Labrador, and she's an electronic storage device (ESD) detection K9 assigned to TPD’s Crime Lab— the first ESD detection K9 in Arizona.
Operation Underground Railroad (OUR) funds K9 Zona's service.
The goal of OUR is to protect children against exploitation and trafficking.
The Jordan Detection K9 School in Indiana trained Zona.
Gaile Warren Digital Forensic Examiner at TPD says investigators go in first then Zona joins looking for any hidden or lost electronic devices.
"She'll look for things such as devices that may have fallen down in between a couch cushion," Warren said. "When Zona indicates that there's a presence of an electronic device she'll sit for me and then look and I'll say 'show me' so she's going to show me that device."
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