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The RCMP has announced the winners of the 2020 Name the Puppy contest.
In a release, the Mounties said the winning names will be given to the first 13 puppies born at the Police Dog Services Training Centre (PDSTC) in 2020.
All the names had to start with the letter N. Lucas Beyea of Loon Lake won for his entry of the name Narco.
The winners of the 2020 RCMP Name the Puppy contest were announced April 29, 2020.
(RCMP/Submitted photo)
“Thank you to all the children who entered,” Staff Sgt. Gary Creed, the senior trainer and acting officer in charge of the PDSTC, said in a media release. “And thank you to all the teachers who make this part of their classwork. These 13 names will serve our dogs with pride.”
The RCMP said in the release that police service dogs are an important part of frontline policing.
They search for missing or lost people, track and apprehend criminals, remove illicit drugs from the streets, detect explosives and search for evidence used in crimes.
The RCMP PDSTC in Innisfail, Alta., is the training centre for all RCMP police dog teams in Canada.
All the German shepherds working today as RCMP service dogs were born at the PDSTC as part of the RCMP police dog breeding program.
The 13 winners will each receive a laminated 8×10 photo of the pup they named, a plush dog named Justice and an RCMP water bottle.
For a list of all the winning entries, click here.