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Yesterday, the Warsaw Breakfast Optimist Club and Warsaw Police Department held the annual Law Enforcement in Action Day at Pike Lake Park in Warsaw.

The event allowed children and families to get an up-close-and-personal look at what local law enforcement does.

Law enforcement vehicles were on display throughout the event, including patrol cars, SWAT vehicles and an ambulance. Kids were welcome to sit in some of the vehicles.

The demonstration of local K-9 unit demonstration seemed to be a big hit. WPD’s K-9s, Mako and Dax, as well as Kosciusko County Sheriff Department’s Rex showed how the dogs help locate narcotics and apprehend suspects.

WPD Lt. Kip Shuter demonstrated the Tazer. He passed around used cartridges to the crowd, displayed two different models of Tazer and even fired one of the Tazers into a target.

The WPD SWAT team also held a demonstration. The SWAT team used a flashbang grenade and bean bag rounds to subdue a perp (a full-size target erected for the demo).

The Warsaw Dive Rescue Team and Multi-Township EMS held a mock drowning demonstration. A dummy was pulled from Pike Lake by divers and EMS loaded into an ambulance, just as they would a real drowning victim.