Kearney Police Announces New K9 Officer

The Kearney Police Department announced the newest addition to the K9 unit on Monday, July 1. K9 Havoc will be joining the department in a few weeks.

“K9 Havoc has completed two and a half weeks of pre training at the Boone County Sheriff's Department and finished his first day of an eight-week handler class,” reads a post the police department’s Facebook Page.

Havoc is in a training class with Roman and Blitz, two other K9’s that will serve the Howell County Sheriff's Office, and the Buchanan County Missouri Sheriff’s Office.

Officer Parton and K9 Havoc have begin their journey to become certified in multiple areas of patrol work through Sheriff’s Department training at Boone County. Once certified, Parton and Havoc will be teaming up with Sgt. Garton and K9 Krash.

Brian Watts contributed to this story.