STORMVILLE – The Metropolitan Transportation Authority Police Department has started moving its canine unit into a $10.9 million training center here that speaks to how much its mission has ...

The MTA Police Canine Unit consists of about 50 teams of officers and dogs responsible for patrolling and protecting the agency’s two commuter railroads, the LIRR and Metro-North.

Top dogs: MTA’s Canine Unit earns first place in state competition Published: Jul. 03, 2019, 1:53 p.m. This 2013 file photo shows MTA Police Officer Rich Ferino and his German shepherd, Otto.

The Schwarzman Animal Medical Center recognizes the MTA Police Department Canine Unit at “Top Dog” celebration at Cipriani-42nd Street on Tue., December 14, 2021.

The MTA department has had a canine unit for decades, but it has been expanding ever since the 9/11 attacks 15 years ago. ... MTA police investigated more than 2,700 of them last year.

MTA Police K-9 Capt. John Kerwick and his partner Hero, ... Recruiters will test about 30 dogs — which typically come from Europe — before choosing one to serve on the K-9 unit, ...

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) --Nineteen dogs have joined the MTA Police Department's Canine Unit. "I look at them as 19 additional barriers between the terrorists and us to keeping us safe," Lt. John ...

An often overlooked but crucial force within the MTA Police Department is its elite canine unit. Last month, 13 dogs (and their human counterparts) graduated from the agency’s Explosive ...

Alison Gentile, a police officer with the MTA canine unit and her dog, Mac, head for a call to fellow officers at Grand Central Terminal in Manhattan on July 12, 2018. Credit: Craig Ruttle ...

STAMFORD -- Laying on the floor of a back office on the lower level of the Stamford railroad station, Mullen's ears shoot up when his human partner, Metropolitan Transportation Authority Officer ...

The MTA is taking new steps to address the threat of terrorism, opening a multi-million-dollar complex north of the city to train bomb-sniffing dogs. The canines patrol the Metro-North and Long ...