Stafford Township Police K9s Ollie and Raven retired at the beginning of the year. This summer, an almost-3-year-old Belgian Malinois named Venus joined the department as Det. Zach Wiatrowski’s drug-sniffing dog partner.
Ollie and Raven were patrol dogs, he explained, meaning they could do tracking and criminal apprehension and then also narcotics. Venus, Wiatrowksi’s first police dog, will do only narcotics detection, no bite work.
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