Rockland Police K-9  

 The Rockland Police K-9 Unit was started in December of 2005.  Today the K-9 Unit consists of K-9 Officer/Handler Steven Somers, Patrol K-9 Boyar, and Narcotics K-9 Jessica.  The K-9 Unit supports the Patrol Division of the Rockland Police Department and serves the community with a variety of functions/services.  The K-9 Unit can track fleeing criminals or missing persons. Search buildings that have been broken into for hiding suspects, evidence recovery, crowd/people control, criminal apprehensions, and the detection of narcotics.  The Rockland K-9 Unit also serves surrounding agencies who do not have the use of K-9's through mutual aid.  The Rockland K-9 Unit is called upon almost on a daily basis to provide these functions in order to apprehend criminals and to help locate narcotics and keep them off of our streets. The RPD K-9 Unit has been extremely successful since it began in 2005.  The K-9 Unit is privately funded through a non-profit organization called the RPD K-9 Foundation. Thank you to the many citizens of this community who donate on a regular basis to ensure our K-9 unit stays up and running.   The RPD K-9 Unit continues to work hard to protect and serve the citizens of Rockland.