85-year-old woman was missing — hero K9 finds her trapped in ravine: “Like watching a Navy Seal extraction”

Police dogs, known as K9s, are really important for police work. They have super senses that humans don’t have, so they can do things like finding missing people.

One K9 recently did an amazing job finding a missing older woman. It only took him ten minutes!

On May 2, the Greenwood Village Police Department in Colorado got a call about an 85-year-old woman who had been missing for two hours.

To help bring the woman home as soon as possible, the department deployed a K9 named Mercury, who has been with the department since July 2022 and is specially trained in tracking down missing persons.

Mercury, the police dog, and her handler Officer Speer got to the place where the woman went missing and started looking. Mercury soon found a trail and led them to a steep area where the woman was hanging onto a tree.

There’s a video from the camera on Speer’s uniform that shows the moment they found the woman. Speer tells her, “This is a friendly dog; he found you. We’re going to get you home, okay?”

 

According to a Facebook post from the City of Greenwood Village Government, the deep ravine couldn’t be seen from the roadway or canal, so it’s unlikely the woman would’ve been found soon if it wasn’t for Mercury — whose search took no time at all.

“I had been searching for her for two hours and Mercury and officer Speer found her in 10 minutes: UNBELIEVABLE!” Pete Holman, the missing woman’s son, wrote on Facebook. “It was like watching a Navy Seal extraction.”

He explained that his mother became “gassed out” after trying to climb the hill and was unable to move.

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