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By Will Oremus for MercuryNews.com
The next time Aris dashes into a building on the heels of a bad guy, he won’t be naked.
Aris and his two fellow Palo Alto police dogs, Amigo and Ilan, were presented Tuesday with bulletproof vests emblazoned with their names. They were the latest beneficiaries of Vest ‘N P.D.P., a nonprofit program run by Susie Jean, a Socorro, N.M., woman who has dedicated her career to protecting K-9s since she saw one shot on a television news program eight years ago.
Jean made the trip to Palo Alto City Hall at her own expense to present the vests to the three Palo Alto dogs and one from the police department of the East Bay Regional Park District.
Palo Alto officers said they had coveted the vests for years but couldn’t afford them at retail prices of more than $1,500 each. Last fall, dog-loving police dispatcher Erika Spencer thought to write to Jean, who raises money from donors around the country and buys the vests at a nonprofit discount rate of $700 apiece.
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