Elk Grove Village Police K-9 Units participante in the 19th Annual K-9 Olympics

From August 19th through August 25th, the Elk Grove Village Police Department's K-9 Units participated in the 19th Annual Vohne Liche Kennels/American Working Dog K-9 Olympics in Denver, Indiana.

Officers Wsol and Meyers along with their faithful K-9's Uber and Mack joined K-9 teams from around the county and the globe for a week of intense training and competition. Throughout the week, 80 narcotics K-9 teams and 34 bomb K-9 teams participated in 32 different events. They competed against each other in scent detection events, patrol events, and a 1.5 mile obstacle course similar to the "Tough Mudder" called the "Muddy Buddy". The scent detection events judged the K-9s in detecting scents in open areas, residential, warehouse, the interior and exterior of vehicles, while the patrol events judged the K-9s in conducting building searches, area searches, tracking, control work, and obedience.

As the week concluded, Officers Wsol and Meyers and K-9's Uber and Mack completed the weeklong training while gaining a lot of experience that will be useful every day in serving and protecting the Village of Elk Grove. We are also very proud to announce that Elk Grove's very own K-9 Mack won first place in Narcotic Vehicle Exteriors. During this event, he had to find multiple narcotic odors on approximately a dozen vehicles within 8 minutes.