By the time Roy Potter was 5, he knew his life’s calling. “I wanted to be a police officer, and I loved dogs,” he tells me. “So I would be a police officer with a dog.”

Potter joined the Metropolitan Police Department 18 years ago when he was 25. After four years on patrol, he became a K-9 officer. Midnight was his first dog.

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