Amid a surge in shoplifting crimes in New York City, one of the Big Apple’s largest shopping districts has hired K-9 units in an effort to protect businesses and sniff out thieves.
The 34th Street Partnership, a not-for-profit, private management company that overseas business improvements in the city, including in Macy’s Herald Square, Penn Station, and Madison Square Garden, launched the initiative at the CVS at Eighth Avenue and West 34th Street earlier this month.
The company hired Stapleton Security Services, led by a retired veteran of the NYPD’s Emergency Service Unit, which will deploy three dogs and handlers to take shifts at the entrance of the store as well as outside its doors amid a surge in crime….