A California Police Department Just Promoted A German Shepherd To Detective

The mean streets of Escondido, California got a little safer this week, as the police department has just given a worthy candidate a much-deserved promotion.

After serving as a patrol dog since 2010 finding drugs on suspects nearly 90 times and being brought to more than 1,000 crime scenes, Jena, an 8-year-old German shepherd, was promoted, Escondido police Lt. Eric Skaja said. Jena is the first police dog in department history to achieve the rank of detective. […]

Promoting Jena to detective means that the department will have a highly trained police dog on hand whenever it needs her, and detectives are constantly working on cases, Skaja said. “She’s going to be busy.” [UT San Diego]

So, four things.

1) Yes. YES. Please add “Dog gets promotion” to your lists of best local news stories, right in between “Town elects dog mayor” and “Local man grows really big vegetable.” A police dog getting promoted to detective is probably the best example of this, but any dog getting any promotion will do. Especially in this economy.

2) Please immediately imagine Jena the police dog showing up to a murder scene in a small doggy trench coat and ripping off a dry one-liner like Lennie Briscoe from Law & Order. In fact, just go ahead and imagine an all-dog version of Law & Order. Adam Schiff would be a bulldog. This I know for certain.

3) More from the story…

When she’s not sniffing out drugs, “she’s going to hang out,” Skaja said. “This is what Jena loves to do.”

Same.

4) Most importantly, look at the picture at the top of the page. This is a great day for America… and a ruff day for crime. I’m so sorry for that joke*.

*I am not sorry

Via @SaraKateW