Dallas Police has a presence in Las Vegas for Super Bowl LVIII — and that includes a four-legged officer.
Sr. Cpl. Angela Arredondo and her partner, K9 Apollo, were selected to be part of the security team in and around Allegiant Stadium.
“Apollo is an explosives detection K9,” says Sr. Cpl. Arredondo. “He is trained in many, many different explosive odors.”
Their job is to make sure that the entire stadium — every nook and cranny — is safe for everyone to enjoy on game day.
“The first night, there was a bunch of K9 teams that swept the entire stadium,” says Arredondo, “and they just made sure there was absolutely nothing there, so it’s totally safe for all the fans to come and enjoy the game and not worry about anything except for who’s going to win.”
And Apollo, a German Shorthaired Pointer who’s almost six years old, screens every single thing that goes inside the stadium.
“Any vehicle, any equipment, media equipment, food, I mean anything that you can think of that’s going into the stadium is being swept by a K9 team and bomb techs before it even goes in,” Arredondo says.