National Award for Dewey and Hudson
November 6, 2008
The United States Attorney’s Office, District of Arizona, LECC Award plaque was presented to the Globe City Council, Globe P.D. Officer Brian Hudson and K-9 Dewey on November 3, 2008 by Dr. Timothy Trent, Superintendent Globe Unified School District. Attending participants and honorees were Chief David Mullin and Sgt. Lee Kinnard representing the Globe PoliceDepartment and Jennifer Kinnard, GUSD Director of Teaching and Learning.The KOGS Project was recognized for its outstanding achievement for developing a multi-agency group or task force that exemplifies the cooperative goals of LECC to establish community partnerships designed to address public safety. The innovative strategies of the KOGS Project was the successful product of cooperative efforts of the public, schools, and law enforcement to address a growing concern in our area of school safety which made this project an easy choice for the award. The Globe School District, City of Globe, and Gila County Attorney’s Office cooperatively designed the KOGS {K-9 Officer at Globe Schools} Program and provided the funding ($40,000) and means for Globe Police Department to have a canine unit in the Globe schools to combat juvenile crime and drugs through the campaign of “I think drugs stink too.” Through this program, K-9 Dewey, a yellow Labrador retriever, was purchased and trained with his partner, Officer Brain Hudson. The KOGS program’s goal is to reduce incidents on campus by 95%, reduce Gang Related Activity by 80%, reduce isolated acts of vandalism towards students and staff by 80%, and provide drug, gang violence, bullying, hazing, and other awareness education programs to students over the next 5 years. The program also educating students, parents and teachers through presentations and classroom demonstrations showing Dewey’s skills of detection at work. The KOGS team, Officer Hudson and Dewey, came on duty during November 2007 producing amazing results with GPD data shows a dramatic decline in school related calls. 12 months of KOGS presence within the schools has reduced the number of student campus arrests from 22 to zero. Officer Hudson stated, “We have a great relationship of trust between me, Dewey and the students. The kids love Dewey and value being a positive part of being drug free, they got the message from Dewey - Drugs Stink.”
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