Wheat Ridge police partnering with dog walkers in effort to improve crime fighting

By Karen Morfitt | CBS Colorado

Wheat Ridge police want people out with their dogs to pull double duty. That means while walking your dog or exercising in the Colorado community, why not watch for crime as well?

Sitting front row for a Wheat Ridge Police Department’s dog walker watch class this month was Lin Browning, her dog Lucy with her, in a way.

“She is seven,” Browning said holding up a cellphone photo.

Browning jumped at the opportunity to be in the training — first as a dog lover and as a new member of the town located in Jefferson County on the western side of the Denver metro area.

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