Executive Summary It can be stated that the need of police has a long history and the society cannot function without the active participation of a police department to maintain law and help citizen under any circumstances and down the history police officers had been performing impressively with some stray incidents and exceptions. However, the main hypothesis of the research is that the police canine usage in a positive and effective perception of law enforcement with the K9 program. Canines are one of the tools used by police departments which are gaining popularity for use in the measures and approaches to deal with crime. Canine units find their use in narcotics exposure, bomb and arson detection, tracking assignments and also as patrol dogs. The K9 unit of the Wilmington Police Department serves as a dog squad in which there are five officers who function as handlers of the police dogs in addition to three supervising officials. The K9 unit is lead by a designated Sergeant, with a Lieutenant and lastly a Captain following the Sergeant in the unit hierarchy. In the evaluation of the K9 program the performance of the various program initiatives are assessed. Key elements of impacts of the program are identified and the affects these key elements of impacts are analyzed. The resources made available to the program are looked at and the effectiveness of these resources is studied. The entire process of the program is reviewed and the outcomes of the program initiatives are scrutinized. The entire program is appraised meticulously and the key areas of strengths and weaknesses are identified. Preface The definition of crime was greatly expanded by the modern day criminologists. According to their point of view crime is a combination of surviving sense and environmental force. But at the same note they also point out that there is a certain nature of equal approach towards crime devoid of all instincts and environment. This behavioral pattern of the human nature makes the subject of criminal justice an interesting concept to follow. However, it could thus be mentioned that as there is a certain amount of highest common features among the nature of the human kind towards crime it would well be logical to standardize the process of judicial system and thus making the system more clear and approachable. At the same time a sameness of the judicial process would enable the population to achieve justice with greater efficiency and at a faster pace. Police comes into the situation at this point as a tool of maintaining and enforcing the judicial system. Thus the focal point of the research was to evaluate the topic of Public perception on police officer canine usage and the use of program and back the findings with relevant statistical data and research procedures. This evaluation may be of some interest to the police department as well as the K9 division itself. The primary aim of the evaluation design of the evaluation was to determine the quality of the program and find out what is its usefulness in the community as a whole. The program has its own functions and implementation techniques, evaluation of which is not the primary focus of this evaluation. Instead, the evaluation focuses more on the utility of the program. The evaluation is a mixture of formative and sum