Three North Carolina gas stations are equipping pumps with security canines as an added safety measure for customers after a spate of robberies and carjackings over the past year.
Three Sheetz gas stations have hired K-9 units to keep customers safe in Greensboro. This comes after the theft and the shooting death of an off-duty police officer who was trying to stop a robbery at one of the chain’s end-of-line stores. last year’s, WFMY News 2 reported.
A sign reads, “Your safety is our priority!” A K-9 unit is on site,” a message appeared at the Sheetz Station in Greensboro.
“The safety of our Sheets customers and employees is our top priority. We are continually evaluating which stores need additional support and have added K- to multiple stores in Greensboro as an additional safety measure. We have introduced additional safety measures, including nine units,” a company spokesperson told a local CBS News affiliate.
The department said the specially trained dogs were operated by American K-9 Interdiction, a private company based in Virginia, at Sheet Gasoline locations at Wendover Avenue, West Market Street and Spring Garden Street. Provided at the stand.
one local He told local Fox station WGHP. That dogs are desperately needed in these three places.
“That’s good. People don’t know how to act in public. The public is ignorant, so if you can’t follow the rules, let them bite you,” said Michael Rogers, of Greensboro. .
Other residents were less convinced.
“I don’t know what you’d need a K-9 for unless it’s for drugs or something,” driver Henry Boyd said of the drug-sniffing dogs. “Other than that, they’re just police officers.” Ta.
Another Sheetz customer wondered why they didn’t hire security like other shopping centers.
“I think it’s something that can be controlled, not a dog. There are places like Allied Security that patrol the Friendly Shopping Center until 11 o’clock. So why can’t you give them a job?” Christopher Harper he told WFMY.
