{"72493":{"#nid":"72493","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Group Donates Bullet-proof Vests to Police Dogs","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech police officers, Tiger, Tarzan and Hooch each received bullet-proof\/stab-proof vests courtesy of Vest N PDP.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EVest N PDP is a non-profit group that raises money to buy protective vests for police dogs. Since its founding in 2002, the organization has donated vests to more than 40 police dogs in Georgia, including officers from the Atlanta Police Department (APD) and the MARTA Police Department. Each vest costs the group approximately $700.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech K-9 officers\u0027 duties stretch beyond the Tech campus and into the local community. They often are called in to assist APD\u0027s K-9 officers as their officers are bomb-sniffing dogs and Tech\u0027s are trained to patrol as well as identify potential explosives.\n\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"Vest N PDP (Police Dog Protection) donates bullet-proof\/stab-proof vests to Georgia Tech\u0027s three K-9 police officers.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Vest N PDP raises money to protect K-9 officers"}],"uid":"27310","created_gmt":"2006-12-19 01:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:01:37","author":"David Terraso","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2006-12-19T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2006-12-19T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"72494":{"id":"72494","type":"image","title":"Tiger","body":null,"created":"1449177934","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:25:34","changed":"1475894656","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:44:16"}},"media_ids":["72494"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.vestnpdp.com\/","title":"Vest N PDP"}],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"133","name":"Special Events and Guest Speakers"}],"keywords":[{"id":"2542","name":"dogs"},{"id":"2543","name":"GTPD"},{"id":"2540","name":"K-9"},{"id":"1773","name":"police"},{"id":"2541","name":"vest"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGeorgia Tech Media Relations\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELaura Diamond\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:laura.diamond@comm.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Elaura.diamond@comm.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E404-894-6016\u003Cbr \/\u003EJason Maderer\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:maderer@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Emaderer@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E404-660-2926\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["david.terraso@comm.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}