Crime & Safety
Photo: New Baltimore Police Dog Sniffs Out Drugs
Officer Tim Lindstrom and his furry partner Kuffs practice narcotic detection exercises on a regular basis.

K-9 cop Kuffs keeps sharp with regular narcotic-detection routines.
His handler Officer Tim Lindstrom, a New Baltimore police veteran, puts Kuffs to the test by hiding illegal drugs in random spots in a designated practice area.
When the drug-sniffing black Labrator retriever isn't giving positive "hits" on heroin, crack cocaine, marijuana and other drugs, he likes to sleep in the back of the squad car while his human partner patrols the city.
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in late 2010 and has been instrumental in many narcotic-related arrests since then.
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