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Sarasota News Leader December 27, 2013 Page 78 Sarasota Police Department representatives join staff and students at Booker Middle School for the annual Holiday Stocking Program. Contributed photo POLICE DEPARTMENT TEAMS UP WITH BOOKER MIDDLE FOR PROGRAM On Dec. 20, Sarasota Police Chief Bernadette DiPino and officers from the Sarasota Police Department teamed up with the staff at Booker Middle School for their annual Holiday Stocking Program. out holiday stockings to students, a news release says. The Police Department has offered a special thanks to Church of the Palms on Bee Ridge Road, First Presbyterian Church on Oak Street, Siesta Key Chapel on Gleason Avenue Officers went with school employees and All Faiths Food Bank for donating the from classroom to classroom, handing candy for the stockings, the release adds. DEPUTY CHRIS INDICO WINS 2012 CASE OF THE YEAR AWARD Sheriff Tom Knight has announced that the They tracked and arrested two of the five susNational Police Canine Association (NPCA) pects who were apprehended near a pond at has given Deputy Chris Indico the 2012 Case the PGT Industries facility, the release adds. of the Year Award. Indico has been with the Sheriff's Office since Indico and K9 Zuul responded to the area of 2004. K9 Zuul retired this summer after more Laurel Road and Interstate 75 on Nov. 6, 2012, in pursuit of five armed suspects who robbed than six years of service with more than 100 Mayor's Jewelry Store in Westfield Southgate apprehensions "and is now enjoying his wellMall in Sarasota, a news release explains. earned life of relaxation," the release says.