Certified a police dog and kennels as harm reduction

The FY2026 report lists a new program named K9 program, recipients Police Service Dogs, the Shed Lot and Emergency Accessories, at 27,690.00 funded, 11,445.35 spent and 16,244.65 encumbered (pp6 to 8). It files the program under primary category Harm Reduction and Overdose Prevention, with Connections to Care as its Schedule B strategy, and reports 11,000 people served. It describes the purpose as using K9 encounters as an entry point to diversionary and other treatment programs, and says the police department should have certain protocols in place to facilitate a pathway to treatment. It also calls the program dual use, for youth prevention and education, with dogs deployed in schools, senior centers and community events for harm reduction messaging. Every performance indicator reads unable to track, and the report says the Borough is unable to measure or track the impact. The books show a police dog and its housing. Purchase order 26-00476 paid Police Service Dogs, Inc. 16,000.00 for a European imported police dog by check 53622 on 04/07/2026. It is the only payment the Police Service Dogs vendor history shows. Purchase order 26-00498 paid The Shed Lot 11,690.00 net for two dog kennels and two stone pads by check 53641 the same day. The two payments make the certified funding figure to the cent. Purchase order 26-00873 for 16,244.65, to outfit cars for the K9 unit, was opened on 05/07/2026 and was still unpaid on 08/24/2026. The report gives the launch date as 02/02/2026, six weeks before the dog was ordered. No diversion protocol, referral, treatment or education program tied to the dog appears in the records in hand. A police dog is not a harm reduction service, and police dogs are not among the uses Exhibit E lists.