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Boomer will get to spend his retirement with his best friend after years of tracking down crime suspects together.
The pure bread German Shepherd police dog will stay with his handler Constable Clay Wurzinger as a family pet.
Photo Nanaimo RCMP
"We were never the best looking team, never the most polished, but we tried hard, trained hard, and gave it all we had every time the phone rang, and we were rewarded with success," says Cst Wurzinger.
In 2014, the duo responded to a report of a violent assault of a woman and theft from her vehicle at Vancouver Island University. The team tracked and arrested the suspect.
A year later Boomer and Cst Wurzinger tracked and arrested an armed suspect that had pepper sprayed an off-duty police officer in the face who interrupted a break in to a local business.
In 2016, the team located an elderly woman that had been missing in the Cowichan Valley for five days after hours of searching in 30 degree weather; potentially saving her life.
More recent accomplishments include tracking and arresting a male suspect responsible for a string of break and enters in 2017.
On their last night, Cst Wurzinger and Boomer caught a man wanted in connection with several break and enters then later tracked and captured a suspect wanted in connection with a stabbing.
Cst Wurzinger will now travel to the RCMP national training centre in Innisfail Alberta for three months to work with his new canine partner, Jerry.
