Exhausted Police Officer Helps Abandoned Puppy Find New Home and Gets Honored for His Service

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When we are deprived of sleep, all we want to do is hit the hay as soon as possible, but not for one police officer in Florida. He took an abandoned puppy that he found to the vet for a medical check after his 12-hour shift was over.

In May 2016, Officer Kareem Garibaldi from Florida’s Lakeland Police Department almost hit a small pit bull-boxer-mix puppy because “the pup was running around loose in the neighborhood,” wrote the Lakeland Police Department on their Facebook page.