San Diego police K-9 units train at Lakeside’s El Monte Park

Mid-week, you can often find San Diego police utilizing the large open spaces of El Monte Park (five miles east of Lakeside) to train their dogs.

The K-9 unit pulls up to the staged scene, where a heavily padded suspect is waiting. The dog, typically a German shepherd, is led calmly to the scene and is ordered into a long “down,” during which the canine waits until given the command to attack the pseudo suspect. The suspect is apprehended after the attack and then it starts all over.