St. Petersburg, FL – K-9 Chance is now equipped with a bullet and stab protective vest donated to the St. Petersburg Police Department by Vested Interest in K9s Inc.<\/p>\n
The custom-fitted body armor includes an embroidered message identifying it as a gift of protection from the nonprofit organization. <\/p>\n
Police shared a photograph of Chance wearing the new vest and said he was ready to report for duty.<\/p>\n
Vested Interest in K9s was founded in 2009 to provide protective vests and other assistance to dogs serving law enforcement agencies and related organizations throughout the United States. <\/p>\n
The nonprofit has donated more than 6,631 ballistic vests to working K-9s in all 50 states.<\/p>\n
The organization also supports police dogs through opioid reversal kits, medical first aid supplies, insurance assistance and specialized training programs. <\/p>\n
Its work is funded by donations, grants and fundraising events.<\/p>\n
Protective vests are designed to cover a police dog’s torso and vital organs during potentially dangerous assignments. <\/p>\n
K-9 teams may assist officers by searching buildings, tracking people, locating discarded evidence and responding to other public safety incidents.<\/p>\n
The St. Petersburg Police Department’s K-9 Unit provides support to patrol officers and specialized teams. <\/p>\n
Its dogs use their speed and sense of smell to conduct searches that could be more difficult or dangerous for officers.<\/p>\n
Chance is not the first St. Petersburg police dog to receive donated armor from the organization. <\/p>\n
Previous recipients have included Loki, King, Nacho, Axel, Ash, Cezar, Johnny, Bane, Stark and Darth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"St. Petersburg, FL – K-9 Chance is now equipped with a bullet and stab protective vest donated to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":387170,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[155051,155053,1282,66432,8595,1536,202,204,203,199,201,200,55612,155054,155052],"class_list":["post-387169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-body-armor","tag-bullets","tag-chance","tag-k-9","tag-message","tag-organization","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news","tag-st-petersburg-police-department","tag-stabbing-attacks","tag-vests"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387169","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=387169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387169\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/387170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}