The Hoquiam Police Department welcomes its newest officer to patrol, and it adds 4 legs to the job not just 2. Police Chief Myers says "Well, technically this new officer is commissioned as a police officer- just the four-legged kind. 🐾"
Niko recently completed his 6-week narcotics canine academy in Shelton and was certified by the Washington State Criminal Justice Training Commission as a narcotics canine team. Oh, and so was his two-legged patrol partner, Officer Jerad Spaur.
Officer Spaur has been a patrol officer with HPD for over five years and actually started with us as a police services officer in the City Jail.