Death Classification: Canine / Equine Duty Death

Agency: Chicago Police Department

Served: Length of Service Unknown

Unit of Assignment / Detail: Bureau of Operational Services - Patrol Division, Special Operations Group: Unit 058 - Canine Unit

District of Incident (Present Day): District of Incident Unknown

Cause of Death: Poisoning

Age at Time of Death: 9

Timeline


Date of Birth:

Date of Appointment:

Date of Incident:

End of Watch: 1978

Date of Interment:

 

Interment Details


 Cemetery: Not Interred - Other
 Grave Location: Does Not Apply
 Interment Disposition: Cremated

 

Memorial Details


Superintendent’s Honored Star Case: Not Enshrined

Gold Star Families Memorial Wall: Not Listed

Illinois Police Officers Memorial Wall: Not Listed

National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Wall: Not Listed

Officer Down Memorial Page: Not Listed

 

Service


 Military Service: Did Not Serve

 

Incident & Biographic Details


Police Canine KING, aged 9 years, was a veteran of the Chicago Police Department, assigned to the Bureau of Operational Services – Patrol Division, Special Operations Group: Unit 058 – Canine Unit.

In 1978, K-9 KING and his handler, Patrolman John Thibault, conducted a search. During the search K-9 KING ingested a food which was laced with poison for rodents.

Police Canine KING, born in 1969, received his Probationary Appointment to the Chicago Police Department on September 16, 1971.

K-9 KING was survived by his handler, Patrolman John Thibault.