Associated Press - October 30, 2009 8:15 AM ET
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - The Salt Lake City Police Department's K9 team has earned top honors at the 19th Annual Las Vegas Metro K-9 Trials.
Officers Cale Lennberg and K9 Troll and Tony Brereton and K9 Jinx competed against 40 other teams from five western states and an international team from Mexico.
The competition included building searches, open area searches, tactical obedience, obstacles, apprehension and narcotics searches.
Officer Lennberg and Troll won second place overall for Top Dog. Officer Brereton and Jinx won 2nd place in the building search event and 2nd place in tactical obedience. With a combined seven individual trophies and high scores in 5 of 9 events, the Salt Lake team took home the 1st place Top Agency trophy this year.
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