PUYALLUP, Wash. — The Puyallup Police Department (PPD) is welcoming a new officer to the team –- a dog named Dexter.
The tracking K-9 has specialized training to follow human scent to help find missing persons, suspects, and evidence.
According to the PPD, tracking K-9s use their amazing sense of smell to follow a scent trail, even over long distances and through difficult terrain.
Though Dexter is new to the PPD and is going through training, he has already completed some tracks, including one that helped Washington State Patrol troopers find a gun they believed a suspect had tossed into the tree line along State Route 512…