NAPS introduces new K9 member to the service

Nishnawbe Aski Police Service - Special to the Bulletin

The Nishnawbe Aski Police Service officially welcomed its newest K9 members to the service – Cst. Tyler Gordon and his Police Service Dog (PSD) partner, Kona.
The new members of the K9 Unit were formally introduced to the public during a news conference at the NAPS general headquarters in Thunder Bay on Thursday, April 23. Cst. Gordon and K9 Kona join Cst. Daniel Birch and K9 Becks to NAPS growing K9 Unit.
Cst Gordon and K9 Kona will be stationed at the NAPS Northwest regional headquarters in Sioux Lookout, Ont.
Cst. Gordon joins NAPS as an experienced officer, with 15 years of front-line policing and nearly 3 as a K9 handler. He is proud member of Lac Seul First Nation.
K9 Kona is a general service PSD and is trained to complete numerous specialty tasks including: Missing persons tracking, drug detection, 
firearm detection, evidence detection, criminal apprehension, and building searches.
NAPS first established a K9 Unit to its service in 2009. Canine member Pax served for seven years before formally retiring in 2016. NAPS had been without its own in-house K9 Unit until December 2025.
The re-introduction and expansion of a K9 Unit to NAPS will help provide a more robust range of services to the 34 Northern Communities it polices.