Behind the Badge
Garden Grove PD corporal now on patrol with new K9 partner – finally
0With 85-pound, sable-red German shepherd, Kody, attached firmly to the other end of the jute toy in his hand, Garden Grove PD Cpl. John Bankson finally has found his match. Or so he hopes. Since joining the GGPD K9 unit three years ago, Bankson has worked with a series of dogs that for one reason or another haven’t worked out. “You hit these milestones that I haven’t been really able to reach with the dogs,” he said on a recent evening, as he and 19-month-old Kody were about to begin their shift. Cody came home with Bankson in February and…
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