Tarkio Police K-9

07/25/2025

5th Annual PD K-9 golf tournament. May have rained, ground may have been soggy, but great people can make any weather better. Thank you to all the hole sponsors and those who participated today. Enjoy the pics from today and our winners.

07/20/2025

07/15/2025

AUCTION TIME!!!!!

Place your bids under each of the individual items on this post. Highest bidder after the auction, after the completion of the golf tournament, wins the item.

All items are provided by ADA Fundraising and come with a Certificate of Authenticity.

10/18/2024

If you wanna join the team at Tarkio follow the prompts and let’s get started working together!

HIRING REQUIREMENTS HAVE CHANGED:

Read carefully. Accepting application for non-POST certified and POST certified applicants.

The City of Tarkio Missouri is accepting applications and resumes for the position of full-time police officer. Tarkio is a rural agricultural and growing wind farm community with a population of approximately 1,500. Tarkio is nestled in the Bluffs along east side of the Missouri River, west of Maryville Missouri (the of home of Northwest Missouri State University), and an hour south of Omaha, NE. The former Tarkio college has re-opened its doors as Tarkio Tech, and is actively growing a student body.

Applicants are expected to be self-motivated, professional, and willing to be a member of the community for which you are trusted to serve and protect. Full-time officers have assigned take-home patrol vehicles for rapid response to emergency situations. Residency requirements set forth by policy allow for residency within a 5-minute response time.

Required qualifications are as follows. Must be 21 years of age and older, have a high school diploma or equivalent and able to complete a 6 month paid with benefits Missouri Police Officer Standard of Training course, or possess a current Missouri POST certification, or equivalent. POST or non-POST candidates must be able to pass a criminal background investigation. Have or able to obtain a valid Missouri Driver’s license. Residential requirement, reside within city limits or 5-minute response time.

Starting salary is for non-POST or Cadet Officer start at $38K. POST certified applicants will begin at $41K and negotiable based upon work experience. All uniforms and equipment are purchased by the department.

If interested, please contact City Hall for an application at 660-736-4821. You can also email your resume to [email protected] and [email protected]. Facebook applications are also accepted.

10/04/2024

Officer Dorrel and K9 Hemi traveled to Salina, Kansas for the 2024 Heart of America Police Dog Association (HAPDA) Certification Week on September 29th through October 4th.

We proudly announce that Officer Dorrel and K9 Hemi passed their certification with flying colors! Not only did they pass, but they are coming home with 2 new certifications!

Officer Dorrel and K9 Hemi are now certified to conduct article/evidence searches and is now certified to locate fentanyl during narcotics deployments.

To continue to pile on the good news, Officer Dorrel and K9 Hemi were one of two dogs, out of approximately 25 K9 Units, to be nominated to compete in the 2024 HAPDA Master Track. The HAPDA Master Tracker Award is awarded to a K9 Unit that exemplifies masterful ability in tracking.

It’s with great enthusiasm we announce that Officer Dorrel and K9 Hemi won the 2024 HAPDA Master Track Award. Please know that this is the 2nd time in 3 years that Officer Dorrel and K9 Hemi won this award!

Please congratulate Officer Dorrel and K9 Hemi on their very successful award winning 2024 HAPDA Certification Week.

These new certifications, along with the other certifications, are crucial to the fight of keeping the citizens of Tarkio and Atchison County safe against the epidemic of illegal narcotic drug use.

08/03/2024

On 7/27/2024, the Tarkio K9 Unit held the 4th Annual Tarkio PD K9 Benefit Golf Tournament at the Tarkio Golf Club. The tournament was an absolute success and all of the auction items were sold at the completion of the tournament!! Below is the team names and final results for the two flights.

Championship Flight

1. Outlaw Total: -12

2. Graves Farm #1 Total: -11

3. Pella Total: -10

4. Graves Farm #2 Total: -9

5. Slemp & Sons Trucking #2 Total: -7

6. Farmers State Bank Total: -6

A-Flight

1. Lewis / Young / Salisbury Total: -5

2. Slemp & Sons Trucking #1 Total: -4

3. Northwest Missouri Living Center Total: -3

4. Giles/Phillipi/Niles Total: +3

5. Sellout Transportation LLC. Total: +7

07/16/2024

AUCTION TIME!!!

There is still plenty of spots available if you wish to golf in the tournament. If you cant golf or cant make it for another reason, here is another chance for you to help support the Tarkio PD K9 Unit.

Please place your online bids by commenting on the following photos or by sending a private message to this page. Each photo will have a description of the item and the starting bid price.

All online bids will close at the start of the auction after the golf tournament concludes on July 27th. If you wish to join the auction in person, please be at the Tarkio Golf Club roughly around 2pm, as play should be wrapping up around then. Please know if the tournament is running ahead of schedule, the auction will start regardless shortly after the last team has turned in their scorecard.

These items are provided by ADA Fundraising in Riverside, MO and come with a Certificate of Authenticity.

There are 2 Items with no photos available of the items themselves. The items are listed below in the general photos attached to this post. If you choose to purchase those items please comment under those photos.