Meet Pepper: JSO K9 locating missing people with cognitive disabilities

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office is adding a new K-9 to its unit and focusing on some of the county’s most vulnerable people.

Pepper, a one-and-a-half-year-old bloodhound, will lead the Pepper Project.

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The K-9 was purchased by ElderSource, an aging and disability resource center, to be given to JSO.

Through the Pepper Project, Pepper will focus her efforts on locating people most at risk of going missing, like adults living with dementia and Alzheimer’s, or children with autism…

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