Deputy Gerritt Kaufman has been employed as a Deputy Sheriff with the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office since April 2002. He has been assigned to the K-9 Unit since March of 2005. Deputy Kaufman’s experience with DCSO includes working as a detention and patrol deputy. He is an arrest control instructor.

K-9 Borris is a Belgian Malinois dog, born in Holland on June 12, 2003. Borris came from a long line of working (military and police) K9’s. I selected Borris from approximately one hundred other dogs at Vohne Liche Kennels in Indiana in March of 2005.

K-9 Borris and Deputy Kaufman attended a ten week K9 academy from April 11 th, 2005, through June 10th, 2005. Borris is trained to detect the odor of controlled substances (marijuana, methamphetamine, heroin, cocaine and ecstasy) and trained in obedience, apprehension work, building searches, area searches, tracking and evidence searches and SWAT operations.

Borris achieved his Narcotics Detector Dog (PSP-2) certification on June 14th, 2005 and his Patrol Service Dog (DPO-1) certification on June 16 th, 2005.

K-9 Borris and Deputy Kaufman have assisted the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office, South Metro Drug Task Force and numerous other agencies with K-9 sniffs, tracks, building searches and SWAT operations.