Mr. Pickles Takes a Stand for School Safety
By Josie Hess
Early this month EHS became partners with Oak, Mr. Pickles, and their handler, Mr. Dalton. On Friday morning, just before our new atrocious train station bell this journalist interviewed Mr. Dalton, I found him to be passionate about his work and as many of you expected, dear readers, the dogs are really cute. As broken-hearted as many of you are, there is a good reason we cannot pet Oak, and I am here to report on it.
I began the interview in the chilly hours outside with a simple question, how many dogs are in your fleet? Mr. Dalton told me of the 10 dogs they have within the company, however, the company uses contractors and can have access to as many as 15-20 different dogs at any time. While we are lucky to have such a well provided company with us, we most clearly have the best dogs. Training was the next question ventured down the avenue of, here I learned that at the company the dogs undergo 20 hours of remedial training per month. This is 4 hours more the minimum other police dogs undergo and ensure the best possible readiness for any situation.
During this time of the interview, Mr. Pickles began to make a strange noise. Looking over with Mr. Dalton, we discovered Mr. Pickles was eating a rock. Just sitting there on the ground on top of one of the SROs shoes, little front legs up, eating a rock. Before your reporter could do anything about it, Mr. Pickles swallowed the rock. But don't be concerned my dear readers, this reporter is employed as a veterinarian technician and I can tell you that Mr. Pickles will not be negatively impacted by his new diet.
When we returned to the topic of the K9’s after that brief interruption, Mr. Dalton told me about where he takes the dogs most of the time. Here he told me about how EHS is BKS’s only full time contractor, and while he does take the dogs to other schools, they are free demonstrations of the narcotics K9s. This programme is in my opinion, very important and frankly really sick. I also learned and am here to report that BKS has 3 divisions, the K9 division, security guards, and a surveillance side that is called BKS security. Perhaps our admin will be willing to invest a few extra dollars into more security for us? I know Mrs. Lavin, who is currently fighting for stronger security with the Jeffco board, will be interested in this, we can only hope she'll be a part of our dear readers.
Returning back to the subject of Mr. Dalton and his lovely dogs, we learn that Oak is a firearms trained K9. There are three main scents for him to detect, and his trained response to many of these smells is a change in boy and tail language. There are many different trained responses to the trained scent, such as sitting and pointing. Here Mr. Dalton gave me a demonstration of Oak when he smells nothing, referring to Oak as “nonchalant” when he is not detecting anything. Perhaps your interviewer is too brian rotted, but I would invite all of our readers to please think of Oak as a nonchalant dreadhead from now on and act accordingly around him.
Evergreen High School is very lucky to have Mr. Dalton and his K9’s with us at last. This interview was a small look into the exciting world of private security and K9 dogs. If any of our readers have further questions please talk with Mr. Dalton, I found him to be very friendly and happy to answer my questions; and of course, Mr. Pickles is always there to cuddle and lick your hands.