BLACK DIAMOND POLICE DEPARTMENT
PO Box 309
25510 Lawson St.
Black Diamond, WA 98010
Phone: (253) 631-1012
Fax: (360) 886-2901
Email: ContactUs@police.ci.blackdiamond.wa.us
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Officer Kris Chatterson
and K-9 Sabre
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Officer Kris Chatterson and K-9
Sabre are Black Diamond Police
Department’s first narcotics
detection canine team. Officer
Chatterson has been employed as a
commissioned law enforcement
officer for the Black Diamond Police
Department since April 1997. Since
then, he has been assigned to the
Patrol Division. In May 2006, he was
assigned to the K-9 unit in the
position of narcotics K-9 handler. In
January 2007, he attended the
Washington State Department of
Corrections Narcotics Detection
Canine Handler Training Class. This
class consisted of 240 hours of
training in the classroom as well as
practical applications. Officer
Chatterson was assigned to K-9
Sabre, a 1 year old black Labrador
Retriever who was a rescue from the
Pierce County Humane Society. K-9
Sabre and Officer Chatterson
completed the training as a
team. During training, the
team completed over 526
finds of narcotic substances
and training aids.
The
substances trained on by the
team are Marijuana, Heroin,
Methamphetamine, Powder
Cocaine and Crack
Cocaine. K-9 Sabre is a
passive alert canine, which is the
manner by which most of the
canines in the program are taught
to alert. K-9 Sabre is taught to give
a sit response after having located
the specific location where the odors
of narcotics are being emitted. The
handler is trained to recognize the
changes of behavior the canine
exhibits when it begins to detect the
odor of narcotics. After attending the
required training with the
Washington State Department of
Corrections, K-9 Sabre and Officer
Chatterson were certified by the
Washington State Criminal Justice Training Commission. This
certification was conducted in
Pierce County, Washington and
was conducted by a certified and
trained master K-9 instructor. In
addition to the initial training, K-9
Sabre and Officer Chatterson
participate in weekly training with
the K-9 teams from the surrounding
area.
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