{"id":509916,"date":"2026-10-27T22:04:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T22:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/509916\/"},"modified":"2026-10-27T22:04:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T22:04:07","slug":"paws-off-duty-bpds-k9-kane-enters-retirement-after-nearly-eight-years-of-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/509916\/","title":{"rendered":"Paws off duty: BPD\u2019s K9 Kane enters retirement after nearly eight years of service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 Bakersfield Police Department K9 Kane is retiring after nearly eight years of service.<\/p>\n<p>The department said with his handler, Senior Officer Tyler Schleicher, Kane served in patrol, the K-9 Unit and the Violent Criminal Apprehension Team (VCAT).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKane was a loyal partner, trusted companion and valued member of the BPD family,\u201d said in the social media post.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Bakersfield Police Department K9 Kane is retiring after nearly eight years of service. PHOTO: BPD\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"364\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/b951f922-096f-43b8-9c3b-3e4b53056a11-863369393_1431328899183088_782479474977018761_n.jpg\" width=\"648\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Bakersfield Police Department K9 Kane is retiring after nearly eight years of service. PHOTO: BPD<\/p>\n<p>The post, \u201cThank you, Officer Schleicher, for your dedication, and thank you, Kane, for your years of courage and service.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 Bakersfield Police Department K9 Kane is retiring after nearly eight years of service. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":509917,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-509916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=509916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509916\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/509917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=509916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=509916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=509916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}