BREVARD COUNTY, FLORIDA – For the second time in three years, the Brevard County Sheriff’s Office Animal Services Unit has been named the “Outstanding Agency of the Year” by way of the Florida Animal Control Association for its remarkable packages and continued dedication to staying a “No Kill” Community!
The Brevard County Sheriff’s Office “Paws and Stripes” Program was named the winner of the “2019 Outstanding Cooperative Team Achievement” Award for their first-rate work to train rescue dogs to grow to be comfort puppies for child victims of crime.
The puppies are then provided to Law Enforcement Agencies across the nation, wherein they may help heaps of victims of crime in their provider to their network. The awards had been introduced on the final night time on the annual FACA Awards Banquet in Orlando, Florida, where Animal Service Teams from throughout the state had assembled for the yearly conference.
My wife, Susan, and I have been honored to attend the event along with our favorite K-9, “Junny,” as we watched in admiration the different shows about the award finalists from across the nation and our very, very own BCSO Team’s tremendous accomplishments. The “Paws and Stripes” Program changed into an identified due to its excellent vision to use inmates to train rescue dogs to be able to save the lives of hundreds of children across us of a.
The success of this application has been studied through the University of Central Flo, as it is now a nationwide model for helping defend the lives of children who’ve turned out to be victims of crime. To have our whole Animal Services Team win the “Outstanding Agency of the Year” Award is an extraordinary honor, and to have gained it two out of the past three years is a beautiful testimony to the dedication and love our team has for homeless pets in our community.
As the Sheriff, I am thrilled with this group’s accomplishments, and as a citizen, I am in awe of what they do to save the lives of homeless pets in our community!! There is no query, though, that without the first-rate support of our rescue partners, our volunteers, our fosters, and our network, we would not be where we are today, so on behalf of all our homeless pets in Brevard County
