STATEWIDE — 14 CANINE OFFICERS graduated from the MTA Police Department’s explosives detection and anti-terrorism training during a ceremony at Grand Central Terminal on Tuesday, the agency said in a release. 12 of these dogs will join their human partners to patrol the Long Island Rail Road, Metro-North Railroad and Staten Island Railway, covering a 5,000-square-mile area across New York and Connecticut. The remaining seven canines will serve with regional law enforcement partners, including the NYPD, the Putnam County Sheriff’s Office, and police departments in Brewster and Warwick, New York.
The MTA Police Department maintains one of the largest canine explosives detection units in the U.S., with approximately 50 dogs in service. The canines, about……