K9 Rina – Lunga – Africa

Died – 8/14/20
Handler – PC Amos Langat

Police dog chokes on tennis ball and dies

A police dog died on Friday from choking after it swallowed a tennis ball during training in Lunga Lunga, Kwale county. A police report shows the dog’s handler Constable Amos Langat was on a normal training session when the incident happened. “PC Langat struggled to rescue the police dog but it succumbed,” the report filed at Lungalunga police station says. The dog has been identified as Rina, service number 1395. Langat is nursing injuries on his right finger after the dog bite him while he attempted to remove the tennis ball from its throat. A postmortem conducted at the Msambweni Referral Hospital found the ball stuck in the animal’s windpipe. The ball was removed. On Saturday, Lungalunga deputy county commissioner Josphert Biwort said dog once sniffed out eight kilograms of heroin. In another instance, the dog which was attached to the KRA section located three kilograms of the narcotic drug. Lungalunga police boss Peter Nzimbi told said the dog, a German Shepherd was brought to the station last year. It was 11 years at the time of death.

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Submitted By Jim Cortina

James A. Cortina has been involved with police dogs since 1972 and currently on the Board of Directors for the Connecticut Police Work Dog Association Inc. Jim has been appointed as Treasurer since its inception in 1991. Jim is one of the charter members of the C.P.W.D.A. organization. Since 1975 he has been a certified professional dog trainer and received his Master Trainer Certification in 1985. During his career he has provided armed K-9 strike crowd control for security agencies in Connecticut and out of state security companies. In conjunction with other members of the Connecticut Police Work Dog Association Inc. Board of Directors, he helped to draft Connecticut Statute 53-247(e) "Intentional Injury or Killing of Police K-9" which was passed by the Senate in 1993 and also assisted in implementing the prestigious Daniel Wasson Memorial K-9 Award in 1992. In 1993 he helped coordinate the North American Police Work Dog Association Nationals in New London, Connecticut. He was appointed Training Director for the New London County Work Dog Association from 1985-1987. He performed decoy work for Connecticut Police Work Dog Association Inc. in police K-9 demonstrations, trained several local police department canines, and coordinated training workshops for out-of-state police departments. He participated in the United States Police K-9 Association Trials in Croton on Hudson, New York in 1985 as a decoy. He is an avid photographer and received photography awards in 1989, 1990, and 1991 and currently takes photographs for the Connecticut Police Work Dog Association Inc.
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