Gloucester Twp. to Host 2012 NJ Police K-9 Competition

Editor's Note: The Gloucester Township Police Department posted the following announcement on its Facebook page last week. It appears below in unedited form, aside from minor formatting, grammatical and style adjustments.

The United States Police Canine Association Region 15 PD1 Field Trials PD1 Certification/Competition for police K-9s will be held on Saturday, May 5, and Sunday, May 6, in Gloucester Township. These trials judge the K-9 teams' skills in the following areas: obedience, agility, search work and criminal apprehension.

All of these events are open to the public as K-9 teams from across New Jersey will be displaying their skills in search of their PD1 certification. T-shirts and other vendors will be on site.

May 5:
- Timber Creek High School, 501 Jarvis Rd., Sicklerville, NJ 08081 @ 8:00am: the events of agility, obedience and suspect search will take place.
- Lakeland Airplane Field @ 8:00am (the very end of Collier Drive in the Lakeland Complex off of Woodbury Turnersville Road): the articles search event will he held.

May 6:
- Timber Creek High School @ 8:00am: the events of criminal apprehension will take place.
- Camden County College's Soccer Fields, Ring Road off of Peter Cheeseman Road, Blackwood, NJ 08012 @ 8:00am: the event of apprehension under gunfire will be held.

All events are open to spectators. Please do not bring your house pets to these events.

Any questions or comments should be made to the the United States Police Canine Association Region 15. Visit http://www.uspca15.com/. This is not a Gloucester Township Police event.