New K-9 officers join Santa Cruz Police Department

The Santa Cruz Police Department announced Tuesday that it has added two new K-9 officers named Cash and Luna.

Cash is a 2-year-old male Belgian Malinois and Luna is a 2-year-old female Dutch Shepard.

Both K-9s were imported from overseas, and began working with their handlers in October 2016 . The teams received training in area and building searches, handler protection, suspect apprehension, article searches, narcotic detection, and tracking/trailing.

Cash was purchased through an anonymous donation of $8,500 in memory of the donor’s son.

Both K-9 teams are now on patrol.