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This Department supports Local, Federal, and Private organizations for the purpose of Narcotic and Explosive services. Our unit deploys six narcotic canines and two explosive canines for the purpose of evidence recovery and safegaurding human life. This unit is special in that each of the handler teams are fully dedicated handlers, they only deploy and train their partners for their primary duty. The Department has instructors that teach courses in Basic Narcotic and Explosive Handling. We also have an Explosive Incident Specialist that coordinates bomb threat scenes and conducts training conducive to managing critical incidents.

The mission of the Chatham County K-9 Unit is to maximize law enforcement efforts in the location of specific evidence while reducing man hours required to accomplish an investigation. Mission areas may include the following: Safe School Searches, Street Sweeps, Neighborhood Drug Activity Suppression, Traffic Safety Checks, Service of Search Warrants, Recovery of Evidence, Community Drug Education/Demonstrations, Participation in Multi-Level Narcotic Interdiction Efforts, Narcotic Sweeps of Correctional Facilities, Explosive Detector Response and Sterility Sweeps.

We are a Federally funded K-9 program, therefore all of our sevices are Free. The only cost for the agency is the officers per diem and gas. Lodging is provided to the first four students registered for a course. Lodging is the responsiblilty of the agency after our dorm is full.

We will always remember our brothers and sisters of public safety who gave their lives on September 11th, 2001. Their dedication to selfless and unconditional service is an inspiration to all of us. We will never forget.

God Bless America