Chief James Donovan would like to encourage community members to vote for Raynham Police’s K-9 Kyro as part of the Aftermath K9 Grant competition.
Friends, family and community members are encouraged to vote for K-9 Kyro to help the department win a $5,000 grant in support of the Raynham Police K-9 program. To vote for Kyro, click here.
As part of the competition, $25,000 in grants will be awarded to 10 law enforcement agencies in the United States. The 10 agencies will be determined by who receives the most votes.
Community members can vote for Kyro once every 24 hours per device through Tuesday, Oct. 26. Winners of the competition will be announced on Thursday, Oct. 28.
“K-9 Kyro plays a vital role in ensuring the safety of our community and we hope to win this grant to further improve upon the K-9 program within our department,” Chief Donovan said. “We thank our community for their continued support of our K-9 unit and of Kyro, and appreciate their efforts to help us win this competition.”
Kyro can also earn extra votes through community members following @AftermathK9Grant on Instagram and @AftermathCares on Facebook and liking the daily K-9 grant post. When liking the post community members should note who they are voting for in the comments. Additionally, community members are encouraged to tell their friends and family about the Aftermath K9 Grant to encourage more votes.
About K-9 Kyro
K-9 Kyro, a 9-year-old German shepherd, has served the Raynham Police Department since 2013. Kyro began his career at the Raynham Police Department with handler Ken Collins (Ret.) and went on to work alongside handler Frank Pacheco upon Collins’ retirement.
Since 2013, Kyro has been deployed over 300 times, with many of those deployments to assist surrounding agencies. Deployments have included searching for missing persons, searching for suspects and locating evidence or articles. Kyro has also supported the South Eastern Massachusetts Law Enforcement Council (SEMELC) SWAT team for the past four years.
Kyro’s career highlights include, but are not limited to: locating a disoriented and missing man who was missing for 12 hours in the woods behind the Raynham IcePlex and locating a firearm thrown from a vehicle during a pursuit.
Officer Pacheco’s father, Louis Pacheco, established Raynham’s K-9 program nearly 40 years ago in 1977. Louis Pacheco served as the department’s first K-9 officer from 1977-1983 with K-9s Genera and Roscoe.
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