Second Area Police Dog to Get Vest

Union County's 'Dutch' and his handler, Deputy Adams Fitts

Union County’s ‘Dutch’ and his handler, Deputy Adams Fitts

UNION COUNTY, Miss. (WCBI) — Two area sheriff’s departments are benefiting from a nationwide effort to provide better protection for drug and tracking dogs.

The Calhoun County Sheriff’s Department received word in August it would get a bullet and stab proof ballistic vest for Aquiles, its drug dog. Now, the Union County Sheriff’s Department will get a similar vest for its dog, Dutch.

The vests are part of a program by Groupon Grassroots and Vested Interest in K-9s that raised $350,000 earlier this year for the vests. Almost 1,200 of the custom-made vests, which take several weeks to make a deliver, already have been allocated.

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