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Soap Lake Police Department K-9 Billy in February 2021. The SLPD recently sold Billy back to the company that trained him after his police officer handler was let go.

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Goodbye Billy
June 16, 2022 11:11 a.m.

Goodbye Billy

SLPD sends K-9 officer back to trainer

SOAP LAKE — The Soap Lake Police Department no longer has a police dog. Soap Lake Police Chief Ryan Cox told the Soap Lake city council at a regular meeting on Wednesday that the department had to get rid of K-9 Billy, a Belgian Tervuren who joined the department in late 2020 after his handler was recently let go by the SLPD. “Billy’s original trainer came up to get him,” Cox said...