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Game of Crimes

46: Ted Dahlin Loses His K9 Partner Blek During a Manhunt and Inspires K9s4Cops

Game of Crimes

Game of Crimes

True Crime

4.81.5K Ratings

🗓️ 25 April 2022

⏱️ 132 minutes

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Summary

On December 22, 2009, Ted Dahlin lost his K9 partner Blek in what was one of the worst days of his law enforcement career. Blek gave his life doing what he loved, and his loss was not in vain. Kristi Schiller (Episode 43) launched K9s4Cops because of this tragedy, and over 250 more K9’s have been placed into service from this one incident. Hear Ted’s emotional story and see what the blond is truly like between an officer and his K9 partner.




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0:00.0

Deputy Ted Dallin, the Inspiration for Canines for Cops, talks about how he found out that

0:18.4

he had lost his Canine partner, Black.

0:20.6

No, once he got out of my side, he was quiet.

0:24.0

I mean, he didn't make a bunch of noise.

0:27.4

I mean, sometimes maybe on a building search, they may alert Pobarkin, and that's a whole

0:34.6

other thing.

0:35.6

I don't always like that, but yeah, no, he would have just done what he was doing.

0:41.8

But I stopped and listened, trying to hear anything and couldn't.

0:46.8

So I got on the radio, told the perimeter units, you know, hey guys, you see him, open your

0:52.4

back door and throw him in, everybody knew he was friendly.

0:55.4

I mean, you know, to them, he's not, he was not a out of control dog by any means.

1:04.2

And, you know, so we stopped looking for crooks and started looking for my dog.

1:09.4

And I just started a grid pattern.

1:12.2

And it was dark by now.

1:14.7

And a little while later, my sergeant came up to me and he had his leash because he had

1:21.1

the six foot just dangling and gave me a hug.

1:27.8

Welcome to Game of Crimes.

1:31.8

All right, you guys, welcome back and we're just talking.

1:50.9

I got a special surprise from Murphy goes, something from West Virginia said, no, it's

1:54.7

not possum.

1:55.7

If it is from West Virginia, it'll be special.

1:59.3

It'll be special.

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