{"id":96974,"date":"2025-12-12T11:36:44","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T16:36:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/masterzradio.net\/?p=96974"},"modified":"2025-12-12T11:36:49","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T16:36:49","slug":"indiana-state-police-peru-district-welcomes-patrol-k-9-rich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masterzradio.net\/?p=96974","title":{"rendered":"Indiana State Police Peru District welcomes patrol K-9 “Rich”\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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PERU, IN- On Wednesday, December 10, 2025, the Indiana State Police held a ceremony at the Indianapolis District for the seven new ISP Patrol K-9 Handlers and their newly appointed K-9 partners that successfully completed the\u00a016th Indiana State Police K-9 Training School<\/em>. Trooper Dustin Powers (Peru District) and his partner “Rich” were among those graduates.\u00a0\u00a0Rich is named in honor of Master Trooper David Rich, killed in the line of duty in July 2007.

The Indiana State Police K-9 School is an annual 12-week school held in Indianapolis, with over 480 hours of instruction to include obedience, tracking, locating articles of evidence, apprehension of fighting or fleeing suspects, building searches, narcotics detection, and handler protection.\u00a0 K-9 handlers also receive training in K-9 legal concepts and classes on odor detection theory and tracking situations. Teams train at night and in varying conditions with scenario-based training and problem-solving situations for eight to ten hours a day.\u00a0

Indiana State Police K-9 breeds include German Shepherds, Belgian Malinois, and Dutch Shepherds. The K-9s are certified through Dogs for Law Enforcement Organization.

Rich is a Belgian Malinois\/Shephard mix and is just over a year old. His handler, Trooper Powers, is a four-year veteran of the Indiana State Police.\u00a0 Powers and Rich will primarily patrol the Wabash\/Miami County area, however as a Patrol K9 team they regularly respond to calls as needed across the entire Peru District.

During the graduation ceremony Superintendent Anthony Scott and ISP K-9 Master Trainer Sergeant Kevin Waters both presented course certificates and spoke to the troopers, families, and friends in attendance.\u00a0 Together they addressed the level of commitment and sacrifice required of the troopers and their families during the duration of the twelve-week course.\u00a0 They spoke of an extremely demanding specialty patrol assignment, one that requires a level of professional commitment more so than a typical daily schedule will accommodate.\u00a0 Long shifts, routine after-hours callouts that will always undoubtedly come in after an already long workday, on scheduled days off, holidays, and during special family events; not to mention the continued maintenance, care, and training for both canine and handler that is demanded from this assignment.\u00a0 This level of commitment will be the new norm required of the troopers and their families.\u00a0

On behalf of Superintendent Scott and the entire ISP Family at the Peru District, we thank Trooper Powers and his family for their commitment to this new K9 assignment.<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
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PERU, IN- On Wednesday, December 10, 2025, the Indiana State Police held a ceremony at the Indianapolis District for the seven new ISP Patrol K-9 Handlers and their newly appointed K-9 partners that successfully completed the\u00a016th Indiana State Police K-9 Training School. Trooper Dustin Powers (Peru District) and his partner “Rich” were among those graduates.\u00a0\u00a0Rich … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","rttpg_featured_image_url":null,"rttpg_author":{"display_name":"Wade Weaver","author_link":"https:\/\/masterzradio.net\/?author=3"},"rttpg_comment":0,"rttpg_category":"Uncategorized<\/a>","rttpg_excerpt":"PERU, IN- On Wednesday, December 10, 2025, the Indiana State Police held a ceremony at the Indianapolis District for the seven new ISP Patrol K-9 Handlers and their newly appointed K-9 partners that successfully completed the\u00a016th Indiana State Police K-9 Training School. Trooper Dustin Powers (Peru District) and his partner “Rich” were among those graduates.\u00a0\u00a0Rich…","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/masterzradio.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/masterzradio.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/masterzradio.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masterzradio.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masterzradio.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=96974"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/masterzradio.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96976,"href":"https:\/\/masterzradio.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96974\/revisions\/96976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masterzradio.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=96974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masterzradio.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=96974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masterzradio.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=96974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}