KPD Annual Report - City of Knoxville

K-9 9 Detail
The K-9 Detail officer/canine teams are intensively
trained to work together to provide a variety of services
to the citizens of Knoxville. Officer/canine
teams are routinely used to find drugs, search buildings,
track suspects and others, detect explosives, assist
in crowd control, perform other patrol tasks, and
provide protection to dignitaries and to their human
partners.
K-9 Detail 2011 Highlights
• The Knoxville Police Department has
grown to 16 multi-use canine teams
• Answered 1,387 calls for service
• Searched 1,377 vehicles, 28 buildings, 25
packages and five area searches for drugs
• Seized 21 vehicles, 39 guns and $71,922
• Seized 4,247.61 grams of marijuana,
3,606.6 of cocaine, 1,669 illicit pills, 84.3
grams of MDMA, 30.3 grams of meth, four
grams of heroin, and one gram of LSD
• Conducted 62 criminal tracks and 3 noncriminal
tracks
• Searched 146 buildings and conducted 34
area searches for suspects which resulted in
54 K-9 apprehensions, 9 of which were
physical apprehensions.
• Responded to stand-by for patrol on 116
criminal incidents and deployed for crowd
control once
• Conducted 22 demonstrations with estimated
attendance of 13,649 people
• Over 237 felony arrests and 497 misdemeanor
arrests were attributed to the K-9
Unit
Hit and Run Detail
The Hit & Run Investigation Detail is responsible
for reviewing all hit and run investigations, conducting
follow-ups to these investigations and assisting
other officers and victims with reporting and prosecution
of hit and run crashes. The Detail also provides
technical and investigative assistance in all fatal traffic
crashes in the city. In 2011, the Detail reviewed
571 cases.
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2011 Annual Report