WJON — A Roseau native and St. Cloud State University graduate will soon make an appearance on television screens across the country.
Officer Joey Benke and his K-9 Mesa will be featured on an upcoming episode of A&E’s “America’s Top Dog” competition.
Benke graduated from St. Cloud State in 2012 with a degree in criminal justice and now works for the Bismarck Police Department. He says they were selected out of between 700 and 800 applicants.
“My sergeant in our K-9 program was kind of looking through different things. We do an iron dog challenge each summer for our K-9 seminar and he was actually looking for ideas online for different things we could do for that. He came across this America’s Top Dog thing and ended up emailing one of the producers or something like that, and that’s how we ended up getting interviews.”
The television show pits K-9s and their officers against civilian dogs and their handlers in a series of different obstacle courses and tests.
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