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Officer Greenleaf aims to retire with K-9 championship

For 25 years, criminals on the run in Redondo Beach have had to contend with a fearsome duo: a 6’7 bald-headed cop by the name of Ken Greenleaf, and his even more legendary K-9 partners .

It all began in 1985. Greenleaf planned on being a school teacher but almost accidentally entered law enforcement when a stint as a reserve turned into a fulltime gig. He’d worked three years as an officer in Colorado before returning to his hometown of Redondo Beach to join the police department.

In Redondo Beach, Greenleaf was assigned a four-legged partner by the name of Boris. K-9 Boris was a very large, 115-pound German Shepherd, and Greenleaf barely knew what he was getting into when he took him on as a partner. The first challenge was just handling the leash.

“The first day I got the dog, I had to walk 30 yards across the field, I fell down,” Greenleaf recalled. “And we’re just walking straight on.”

It was the beginning of a beautiful relationship. Over the next eight years, Greenleaf and Boris would form a very successful K-9 team that would prove remarkably effective both at apprehending criminals and doing public outreach with local schoolchildren. Boris, in one instance, actually lifted a plywood cover to a crawlspace so he could get inside and catch a hiding criminal.

“One day, he caught three people,” Greenleaf said. “He had to apprehend two – or bite two – then he found a guy on the roof, and as we take him into custody and he’s handcuffed…. I’ll never forget, we turn around and he’s laying on his side, sleeping. Bites two guys, finds one and he goes crazy and then he’s sleepin’. So, when he worked, he worked, and when he really didn’t have to work, he just kicked back. He was just a funny dog. You know, kids could jump on him and pull his ears.”

By the time Boris retired in 1993, Greenleaf had established himself as an unusually effective dog handler. Some police dog handlers treat the dog as little more than a tool – when off-duty, the dog just goes into a kennel until their next shift begins. Greenleaf brought Boris into his family, and the two developed an almost seamless bond.

“The difference with me is a lot of guys will go out, send the dog, the dog runs out, finds the guy, barks or bites or does what he has to do,” Greenleaf said. “Well, with me, I want to know why’d the dog turn right here, why’d he turn left, what’d he smell. I just got into what made him work….Most handlers are not as picky as I am, because they’re policeman, and they’re probably better policeman than I am, because I like the dog stuff.

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