{"id":336345,"date":"2026-09-02T22:00:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T22:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/336345\/"},"modified":"2026-09-02T22:00:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T22:00:11","slug":"proud-to-carry-on-his-name-brooklyn-heights-welcomes-k-9-named-after-fallen-euclid-officer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/336345\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Proud to carry on his name\u2019: Brooklyn Heights welcomes K-9 named after fallen Euclid officer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">BROOKLYN HEIGHTS, Ohio (WOIO) &#8211; The Brooklyn Heights Police Department welcomed a new member of its force Monday who will carry on the name and memory of an Euclid officer killed in the line of duty.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The department posted Wednesday news of its newest K-9, Jake, named in honor of Officer Jacob Derbin, who was killed in the line of duty in May 2024.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid mx-auto d-block\" fetchpriority=\"low\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"The department posted Wednesday news of its newest K-9, Jake, named in honor of Officer Jacob...\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/A5TBDACI3VE7BA4JOMWJFARAZM.png\" width=\"980\" height=\"551\" \/>The department posted Wednesday news of its newest K-9, Jake, named in honor of Officer Jacob Derbin, who was killed in the line of duty in May 2024.(WOIO)<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cWe\u2019re proud to carry on his name and memory through our K-9 program,\u201d the department said. \u201cJake has plenty of growing and training ahead of him, and we look forward to sharing his journey with our community.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid mx-auto d-block\" fetchpriority=\"low\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\u201cWe\u2019re proud to carry on his name and memory through our K-9 program,\u201d the department said....\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/5LEYGBHNGFFCDMWLYR7P2NIPPI.png\" width=\"980\" height=\"551\" \/>\u201cWe\u2019re proud to carry on his name and memory through our K-9 program,\u201d the department said. \u201cJake has plenty of growing and training ahead of him, and we look forward to sharing his journey with our community.\u201d (Brooklyn Heights Police Department)(WOIO)<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Jake will be sworn in at the Sept. 15 Village Council meeting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The department also thanked everyone who has donated to its K-9 program, citing those donations as making Jake\u2019s arrival possible.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">PREVIOUS COVERAGE:<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WOIO. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BROOKLYN HEIGHTS, Ohio (WOIO) &#8211; The Brooklyn Heights Police Department welcomed a new member of its force Monday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":336346,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,6748,81118,99,126343,98783,126344,126346,126345,9,24,63,1758],"class_list":["post-336345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-heights","tag-brooklyn-heights-police","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-euclid","tag-jacob-derbin","tag-jake","tag-k-9","tag-k9","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-ohio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=336345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336345\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/336346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}