Warren County Sheriff’s Office announces new K-9

The Warren County Sheriff’s Office has announced it is getting a new K-9. 

The new dog has been selected and will specialize in detecting explosives with the ability to track moving threats in crowded areas such as airports, stadiums, or schools.

The Sheriff’s Office said this will be an improvement for the area because it will be the first K-9 of its type in Warren County. 

This means the Sheriff’s Office will no longer need to wait for units from the Louisville or Nashville areas.

“Any particular situations where we thought there was a call of a bomb. You know, these come in at times. We had one a few weeks ago that we had to walk around a perimeter and there was a caller that said they had planted a bomb, and so the dog would be used right there. Instead of us walking around the building ourselves looking, this dog can truly identify it by my smell,” Warren County Sheriff Brett Hightower said.

The Sheriff’s Office has asked for the community’s help in naming the dog on Facebook. 

The top five names are Boomer, Ember, Nala, Nitro, and Nova.

“It’s kind of a fun exercise, and we’re going through those now. We’re trying to select which names came across the most frequently and which ones seem to be more decided on through our community,” Sheriff Hightower said. 

“We wanted to always involve our community in a lot of the decisions we thought would be kind of neat because this dog will be a lot of times used in the schools,” he added.

The Sheriff’s Office is still taking votes for the new K-9’s name at this time.