LAWRENCEVILLE, Ga. — ‘Twas the week before Christmas and all through the town; Porch Pirates are stirring—even outside your house.
As presents are delivered to the door with the care; There’s a new weapon to make sure those gifts will still be there! Our K9Kait showed us how one K-9 officers is leaving criminals filled with dread.
You better not steal;
You better not fight;
You better behave;
'Cause this Santa bites!
'Ali Claus' is coming to town.
"Especially with it being the holidays right now, we go out and we are hitting neighborhoods hard, because you have a lot of daytime burglaries," explained Lawrenceville Police officer Shawn Humphreys. "We're always looking for people in places they don't belong. You don't want to see people walking behind houses - they don't belong there. We want to say, 'hello' to them. Identify them and find out why they are there."
He's making a list;
Checking it twice;
'Gonna find out whose naughty and nice.
Ali Claus is coming to town.
"If we get called, we're going to come and find you. That's what we do. That's what we love to do," Humphreys said.
Sure, Lawrenceville isn't quite as far north as the North Pole. And handler Shawn Humphreys and K-9 Ali don't exactly drive around in a sleigh. But they do have a pretty sweet ride.
"Lights and sirens are coming on, I'll tell him, 'hey buddy, you want to go find a bad guy? Let's go find this guy'," he said.
They have the temperament of the big guy, too.
"Ali loves his job. He's very good at it, and he gets to have fun. We just love what we do," he said.
He knows if you've been thieving.
Knows if your ID's a fake.
He knows if you've been bad or good,
So be good for goodness sake!
They've been together for six years now, and their bond is rock solid.
"Everything changes when you become K-9. You have a living breathing creature that you put your life in his hands, or his paws ... And he knows that I will protect him as much as I know he'll protect me," he said.
Officer Humphreys says K-9 Ali thrives on his work.
"What others consider work, we consider fun. We look forward to the hot calls, we look forward to the 'in-progress'," he said.
You better watch out.
You better not try.
Don't break the law,
I'm telling you why ...
Ali Claus is coming to town.
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