{"id":2513,"date":"2014-12-11T13:31:15","date_gmt":"2014-12-11T18:31:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/?p=2513"},"modified":"2014-12-11T13:31:15","modified_gmt":"2014-12-11T18:31:15","slug":"brick-police-k9-helps-in-county-wide-anti-drug-effort-in-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2014\/12\/brick-police-k9-helps-in-county-wide-anti-drug-effort-in-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"Brick Police K9 Helps In County-Wide Anti-Drug Effort in Schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2514\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/k9_max.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2514\" class=\"wp-image-2514 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/k9_max-e1418322643488-400x403.jpg\" alt=\"Ptl. Keith Prendeville and K9 Max (Photo: Ocean County Prosecutor's Office)\" width=\"400\" height=\"403\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/k9_max-e1418322643488-400x403.jpg 400w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/k9_max-e1418322643488-55x55.jpg 55w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/k9_max-e1418322643488.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2514\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ptl. Keith Prendeville and K9 Max (Photo: Ocean County Prosecutor\u2019s Office)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Brick Police K9 Max had an out-of-town assignment Thursday morning: ensuring New Egypt High School in the western portion of the county was free of drugs.<\/p>\n<p>Max, and Ptl. Keith Prendeville, his handler, were among five police K9s that are participating in a county-wide effort to deter students from bringing illicit drugs into the school environment.<\/p>\n<p>The dogs are trained to sniff out drugs in lockers and other areas of schools. According to the Ocean County Prosecutor\u2019s Office, all of the county\u2019s high schools are participating in the program as part of a larger effort to combat the county\u2019s heroin crisis. In addition to the K9 enforcement, high schools county-wide, including both of Brick\u2019s, are participating in a program where a QR code sticker is placed in each locker that leads students to an anonymous hotline where drug activity can be reported to the correct authorities.<\/p>\n<p>The prosecutor\u2019s office does not comment publicly on whether any criminal charges result from the drug searches. As for the hotline, Al Della Fave, spokesman for the prosecutor\u2019s office, said anonymity is key.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<span class=\"userContent\" data-ft=\"{&quot;tn&quot;:&quot;K&quot;}\"><span class=\"text_exposed_show\">If there is any threat that the individual\u2019s identity would be compromised, the investigation would not move forward,\u201d Della Fave said.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The programs are funded through the seizure of money from drug dealers.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fb-share-button fcbkbttn_large_button \" data-href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2014\/12\/brick-police-k9-helps-in-county-wide-anti-drug-effort-in-schools\/\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"large\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brick Police K9 Max had an out-of-town assignment Thursday morning: ensuring New Egypt High School in the western portion of the county was free of drugs. Max, and Ptl. Keith Prendeville, his handler, were among five police K9s that are participating in a county-wide effort to deter students from bringing illicit drugs into the school [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2514,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-police-fire-courts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/k9_max-e1418322643488.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgt2Ft-Ex","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2513\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}