{"id":378354,"date":"2026-08-22T13:10:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T13:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/378354\/"},"modified":"2026-08-22T13:10:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T13:10:08","slug":"miami-police-introduce-new-k-9-samson-to-the-force","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/378354\/","title":{"rendered":"Miami Police introduce new K-9 Samson to the force"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cbsnews.com\/miami\/tag\/miami-police\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Miami Police<\/a> welcomed a brand-new four-legged member to the force: Samson, a K-9 officer with a specific purpose. The one-and-a-half-year-old German Shepherd has been paired with Sgt. Jesse Rodriguez, an 18-year veteran of the force.<\/p>\n<p>During an introductory press conference on Friday, Rodriguez already began showing praise for his new partner.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;K-9 Samson, he&#8217;s been great. As you can see, he&#8217;s social,&#8221; Rodriguez remarked.<\/p>\n<p>The department said Samson, who was born in Europe, isn&#8217;t just an obedient member of the team; he&#8217;s also completed three months of specialized training to become a firearm-detecting K-9.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s a lot of work that lies ahead,&#8221; said Chief Edwin Lopez during Friday&#8217;s introduction, &#8220;so God willing, we&#8217;re going to get many years of service out of these dogs. They often are able to provide seven, eight, even 10 years sometimes of service.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not all work for Samson; Sgt. Rodriguez said the department makes sure to provide for Samson outside of duty as well.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We try to give him a good life outside of work, to try and treat him like part of the family,&#8221; he said, &#8220;but also, when it&#8217;s time to work, they&#8217;re professional enough to turn it on.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Miami Police welcomed a brand-new four-legged member to the force: Samson, a K-9 officer with a specific purpose.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":378355,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124,8166],"class_list":["post-378354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news","tag-miami-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=378354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378354\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/378355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}