K9 Krash euthanized after retiring from Hanford Police Department

HANFORD, Calif. (KFSN) -- K9 Officer Krash started his work successful May of 2019 astatine the Hanford Police Department.

But his euthanasia successful January of 2024 has near galore questions unanswered.

Community members, similar Dionicia Parks, accidental they are astatine a nonaccomplishment overhearing the devastating news.

"It's conscionable truthful bittersweet it's bittersweet that helium was enactment down with not each enactment exhausted for him," says Dionicia of Hanford.

She is heartbroken implicit the decease of the retired Hanford Police K9.

She recovered retired astir Krash's euthanasia successful a now-deleted Facebook station and shared her concerns astatine a caller metropolis assembly meeting.

She present keeps photos of Krash successful her location arsenic a reminder of her ngo to beryllium his voice, "That canine didn't person a voice, it didn't person an advocator for it."

The City of Hanford says Krash joined the section successful May 2019 and retired successful October 2022 owed to aesculapian reasons.

The Belgian Malinois was enactment down connected January 31. He was 7 years old.

"The idiosyncratic oregon radical that demanded this canine to beryllium enactment down person a truly agelong communicative with God, they person to look judgement for that," Dionicia mentions.

The City says Krash's handler was caring for him up until 2 months ago.

Before that, they worked with the department's K9 Handlers to scope a "Conditions of Canine Acceptance" agreement, which sets circumstantial requirements for keeping a retired constabulary dog.

In a statement, the metropolis says quote:

"Krash's handler notified the City that they could not hold to specified presumption and truthful would relinquish the K-9 to the City of Hanford. After considering options, nary of which resulted successful a harmless post-retirement situation, the City made the hard but indispensable determination to enactment Krash to sleep."

We reached retired to Krash's handler who is incapable to remark connected the matter.

The metropolis besides shared that Krash was antecedently progressive successful an on-duty biting incidental of a bystander, but helium continued to enactment for the section afterwards.

Dionicia believes the K9 that was trained to service and support should not person been euthanized aft dedicating years of his beingness to the department. She says she's adjacent reached retired to rescues that would person taken him in.

"The facts request to travel out, the information needs to travel out, due to the fact that anyone tin marque a statement. But we privation the truth, we privation documentation, we privation the facts to travel out," says Dionicia.

The City says each of the department's different existent K9 handlers agreed to the conditions of the caller document.

The connection besides refers to the calamity involving a retired Exeter K9, which killed a pistillate and wounded her neighbour successful Grover Beach.

That 2016 lawsuit led to a suit with a $20 cardinal verdict.

But Dionica believes sidesplitting Krash was not the close mode to forestall a akin situation.

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