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In addition to the Poulsbo high school and middle school; I made some appearances at the
schools in Kingston; out of my jurisdiction but we were more than welcome there by the
staff. The students there weren’t used to seeking Kilo so it was kind of a big deal when we
showed up one day and just walked around. The whole point was to make a presence and
see which kids got really nervous, and especially to put them all on notice (the bad kids
anyway) that a drug sniffing dog was around and could show up at any time.

The deterrent value of Kilo against criminals and criminal activity could not be overstated. Just the fact that he existed and was
on duty sometimes was enough to dissuade at least a few drug users and dealers to start staying clear of Poulsbo. Example: One
night we got called out to sniff some cars in a parking lot at one of the busier bars. An informant had some good information
about a cocaine dealer. Kilo and I had to the search discretely and quickly in the dark and we managed to pull it off without any
bar patrons noticing. Based on the good intel that we had, and adding in the K9 sniff that resulted in a positive alert for drug
odor, a judge was called and he granted us a search warrant over the phone, which is called a telephonic warrant. The warrant
was signed off by a judge (over the phone) and we got permission to search the one specific truck belonging to a cocaine dealer,
while it was still parked in the front parking lot of the bar. When we found him in the bar and served him the warrant he decided
to be agreeable to give us consent to search his truck, which meant basically he surrendered his keys to us so we didn’t have to
break anything. He had no cocaine stashes in his truck that night, just some powder residue here and there. So while he got
away clean, he learned something about the Poulsbo Police that night. And when I ran Kilo around and into the truck again, I
saw that the 20 or 30 people outside the bar watching were also getting a lesson about what kind of new resources the PPD had.
And I know those folks told all their friends, and like I said while he didn’t get any cocaine that night, the show we put on made
a pretty clear impression to everybody present and after that, we didn’t hear any more word on the street about cocaine dealing
at that bar ever again.