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Check out the fetching models on the VPD's 'Year of the Dog' calendar

Featuring some of the force's most handsome law enforcers, the VPD Canine Unit's calendar features crime-fighting canines posing in Vancouver's Chinatown.
Lindsay William-Ross
Lindsay William-Ross

The Vancouver Police Department has just released a 2018 "Year of the Dog" calendar, and its very fetching models will have you saying bow wow.

Photo courtesy Vancouver Police DepartmentPhoto courtesy Vancouver Police Department

Featuring some of the force's most handsome law enforcers, the calendar is actually from the VPD Canine Unit, and each month includes a shot of a different crime-fighting K9.

The VPD has been having a fun time with the launch, letting police dog Hawk play in Deputy Chow's office Wednesday.

Police dogs are an important part of the VPD's work. The canine unit has been in operation since 1957, and is the oldest municipal police dog unit in Canada. They even have their own Twitter account, @VPDCanine.

The VPD explains:

"The Canine Unit is comprised of 15 dog teams working 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The dogs are trained in variety of disciplines such as tracking, criminal apprehension, evidence recovery, narcotics, firearms and explosives detection. The Unit routinely responds to over 10,000 calls for service per year in the city of Vancouver, and to Lower Mainland police agencies that require the services of a police dog and a police officer."

Although the 2018 "Year of the Dog" calendar is cause for celebration, sadly retired VPD police dog Teak died this week.

The dog calendar is an annual fundraiser, and "is funded and produced by the Candy Anfield Memorial Foundation, which was created by retired VPD Sergeant Mike Anfield in honour of his wife Candy, a VPD officer who lost her valiant battle with breast cancer in 2004," according to the VPD.

For 2018, the dogs were photographed in Vancouver's Chinatown in honour of the "Year of the Dog."

You can get your copy for $15, and all of the money goes to the BC Cancer Foundation and the BC Children’s Hospital Foundation.

Find your Vancouver Police Dog 2018 calendar here: