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Page 6A THE BEACON September 2023 Community Law Enforcement Officers Include K9 Partners Dearborn County Deputy Jefferson and Rambo. Continued from page 1A dual-purpose dog, to aid in the detection of illegal drugs and tracking. While rare, Deputy Cochran was able to bring Glock with him when he transferred to the Dearborn County Sheriff’s Department in 2019. The Dearborn County Sheriff’s Department recently added two more K-9 dogs to their police force. The dogs arrived from Europe and are “green,” meaning they haven’t been trained yet. Major McBroom and Deputy Josh Cochran will train the dogs and the handlers. Officer Jason Turner has worked with the Aurora Police Department since 2018. When the K-9 handler for the Aurora Police Department left, Officer Turner expressed interest in becoming a K-9 handler. In 2020, he began working with Ozzy, who is also a dual-purpose dog that searches for illegal drugs, human tracking, and criminal apprehension. Like Glock, Ozzy was imported from the Netherlands. Officer Turner and Ozzy also assist with the Ohio County Sheriff’s Department, Rising Sun Police Department, state police, or any agency that needs assistance. Officer Greg Cannon has been a full-time member of the Lawrenceburg Police Department since 2019. In January 2020, Officer Cannon became the third handler to work with K-9 Siri, an eight-year-old Belgian Malinois. Siri is a native of Lawrenceburg, where she has been a valued member of the Lawrenceburg Police Department for approximately five years. Officer Troy Cochran also serves with the Lawrenceburg Police Department and is a handler for K-9 Kilo, an eight-year-old Belgian Malinois that was imported from the Netherlands. Both police officers and K-9 dogs must complete an intense training program prior to working together. Deputy Josh Cochran attended a six-week training course at the Shallow Creek Kennels in Sharpsville, PA before working with Glock in 2013. In 2017, he attended the world-renowned Randy Hare School of Dog Trainers in Rhode Island which began Deputy Cochran’s career as a K-9 trainer and dog handler. Officer Turner completed the six-week Vohne Liche Kennel Training handler’s course in Peru, Ind. Major McBroom attended a training course in Georgia prior to working with Raiko. Major McBroom also serves as a contractor for the Dearborn County Deputy Sheriff Jackson and Chief. company where Raiko was purchased and has assisted the U.S. military. Jacob Jump is a master K-9 trainer with the Lawrenceburg Police Department. He trained Officer Cannon to become a handler and also leads a group of police K-9 handlers from southeastern Indiana, that meet once or twice a month for continuous education. K-9 handlers average 16 hours a month of training. During a track, K-9 dogs are instrumental in tracking evidence that may be discarded, such as a weapon or illegal substance. When evidence is located, the K-9 dog will alert his or her handler to the evidence. During the handlers training course, the officer learns how the dog will alert when evidence is located. While K-9 dogs are trained to apprehend, they will bite and hold the arm of the person they are tracking until they are given a command to release, to help protect everyone that is involved in the situation. This is why you should never attempt to pet a K-9 dog. While Raiko has aided the police in many situations, one story that stood out to Major McBroom was when Raiko helped locate a missing child. A 3-year-old boy was last seen playing in a sand pit located next to a tractor and near a pond. Raiko was brought in to help track the missing child. She went to the tractor and detected the boy’s odor and then trailed over to the barn. A 4-wheeler was backed into one corner of the large barn and Raiko Don’t let taxes derail your retirement! 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Early in Deputy Josh Cochran’s career as a new K-9 handler, he and Glock were called to a scene where a suspect wearing camouflage and armed with a weapon threatened two people in their home before fleeing into the woods. K-9 Glock began tracking the suspect and located his trail. Glock caught the suspect’s scent in the wind (what’s referred to as a proximity alert) and located the suspect about 40 yards away, hiding in a creek bed. Had Glock not alerted the police, there could have been an ambush, but luckily the suspect peacefully surrendered. Officer Turner recalls a time when he and Ozzy were asked to help with an article search. An intoxicated driver crashed a car into a retaining wall. When the driver was located and taken into custody, he didn’t have the car keys and claimed he wasn’t driving the car. Ozzy and Officer Turner conducted an article search where the man was detained, approximately one-quarter of a mile away from the vehicle, where the keys were located. The driver tossed the keys in hopes they wouldn’t be found so he could avoid being charged with a crime. Officers Troy Cochran and Cannon along with K-9s Siri and Kilo participate in the annual OnPoint K-9 Competition held in Bowling Green, Kentucky. At the 2022 competition, Siri placed third in narcotics and first in a detection scramble, a timed event to see which dog can locate narcotics the fastest. Kilo has also won awards at the annual competition. K-9 dogs enjoy visiting daycares, schools, and nursing homes throughout Dearborn County. Annual K-9 demos are held locally in Aurora, Greendale, and Lawrenceburg to educate the public on the abilities of police dogs. K-9 dogs are part of the family and reside with his/her handler. When not working, the police dog needs to have time off, just like a human being, even though they want to continue working. The next time you see a K-9 dog, I hope you’ll have a deeper appreciation for the work that a police dog and his/her handler perform. We are fortunate to have so many dedicated members of law enforcement in our community to help serve and protect.
September 2023 THE BEACON Page 7A By Mary-Alice Helms Unlike the families of many of our friends, we did not go on long annual vacations, but we looked forward to one special day of the summer. It was our “vacation day”. During the winter months, we had fun looking up interesting places that would allow us to go and return in just one day. One day in 1943 or thereabouts, we thought about Cincinnati’s Coney Island. We had heard stories about the wonders of this fabled park. Kids who had been there talked about swimming in its huge pool and riding on the rides. They told us funny stories about the antics of roaming clowns, sideshow barkers, and balloon salesmen. We decided that Coney Island would be our next “vacation day” destination. Mother was up early on the morning of that special day, frying chicken and making potato salad for the picnic basket she was packing. Daddy told her that there were many food stands and a restaurant at Coney Island, but Mother would have none of that. “Do you know how much it would cost to feed the four of us in one of those places?” she asked. “Besides, I just don’t trust those food stands.” We didn’t argue. Mother’s picnics were feasts! We wouldn’t be swimming in the Sunlight Pool, either. The risk of contracting the horrible disease, Polio, was just too great. Daddy had assured us that there would be plenty of other things for us to see and do. And so we climbed into our 193? V8 Ford with its scratchy seats and settled down for the long drive to Coney Island. What was probably little more than an hour’s drive seemed to take forever. But what I saw when we drove through the Coney Island gates took my breath away! The world seemed to have suddenly turned on ultrabright technicolor. Thousands of people were milling around the booths, each with its own colorful poster. Protecting the carousel from the summer heat was a huge round-topped tent with wide red and white stripes, topped by a flagpole waving a goldedged banner. That carousel with its tent must have been the icon for the park, as it was centered in all of its advertising that summer. Rising over everything else was the gigantic Ferris wheel. The view made my head spin Remembering Coney Island Moonlight Gardens at Coney Island. Coney Island’s grand entrance. just looking at the top seats and how high they soared above the ground. The tracks of a roller coaster hemmed in one side of the park. I could see so many other rides; the Tilt-A-Whirl, bumper cars, and a myriad of kiddie rides covered the area’s interior. On the side opposite the coaster was the legendary Sunlight Pool. It did not disappoint! The sun glinted off its clear blue surface and was even more gigantic than I had imagined. “Sunlight Pool is the largest recirculating pool in North America,” Daddy informed us. He collected bits of interesting information like a squirrel collects nuts. He continued to feed us information as he parked the car. “This whole area was once a farmer’s orchard,” he said, opening the trunk and retrieving the picnic basket. “Originally it was called Parker’s Grove, then Ohio Grove, the Coney Island of the West and finally just Coney Island.” Surprisingly quickly, we found a vacant picnic table. I guess most of the mob of visitors had opted for carnival food. As always, Mother’s picnic lunch was perfect, but my sister, Julie, and I were too excited to eat. We couldn’t wait to try out some of the rides. The plan had just one problem. I hated any ride which took one in neck-wrenching circles. Even worse were those which lifted its riders high off the ground. That pretty much shortened our list of choices. We rode the carousel and battled with the bumper cars. Although Julie was three years younger than I was, she was much braver! She went with Daddy on the Ferris Wheel while Mother and I stood by and watched them whirl by. “While we were up there, we spotted a ride that I think we would all like,” Daddy announced when the Ferris Wheel ride was over. “It’s a nice little boat ride. There are just four people in each boat. It floats along a stream, under a tunnel and a footbridge before it docks.” That sounded great, and we headed off to find “The Lost Stream,” where we settled into a boat and started on our “relaxing ride.” The ride was relaxing, for a while. The boat traveled on rails hidden under the water and slid smoothly through the water. Suddenly I felt a slight “bump,” and the rails began to carry us to the top of a tower. You guessed it... at the top of the tower, we were dropped into the pond below, just like a roller coaster drop. We were soaked from head to toe, and I had never felt such terror. I think that experience is one of the reasons why I hate to fly to this day! All in all, our Coney Island day was one of our favorite “vacation days.” There were so many more wonderful experiences that I could tell you about. We got to see the magnificent Island Queen riverboat dock and disgorge visitors to the park. We saw Want to Keep Getting The BEACON? An old postcard featuring the Mall at Coney Island. The Midway. The Skyride on the Midway. Moonlight Gardens, the beautiful, trellised dance hall where Julie and I got to go dancing in our dating years. We saw families, tired from years of war, and servicemen in uniform who would have to return to that war. We ate hot dogs and shaved ice and spent our allowances on cheap souvenirs. Sadly, Coney Island that we knew is gone and is now a water park. On September 21, 2019, the announcement was made that all rides would be removed. We still will remember Coney Island. 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