Corporal Matt Sanchez gives Amp her toy after completing a search of a locker room in Fountain Middle School in Fountain, Colo. Photographed on Tuesday, Oct. 10, 2017. Amp is trained using her toy as positive reinforcement.

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Corporal Matt Sanchez and Amp walk the halls at Fountain Middle School in Fountain, Colo. on Tuesday, Oct. 10, 2017. Amp was been assigned to the school in August, and was at Fountain-Fort Carson High School the previous year.

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Alyssa McEwen and Haylee Hicks, students at Fountain Middle School, pet Amp after gym in Fountain, Colo. Photographed on Tuesday, Oct. 10, 2017. Amp is trained for searches, not apprehension, so she is good with kids. "Her training is find and play, not find and bite," Sanchez said.

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Amp sits in the hallway at Fountain Middle School in Fountain, Colo. on Tuesday, Oct. 10, 2017.

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Amp searches for keys outside the Dean Fleischauer gymnasium at Fountain Middle School in Fountain, Colo. on Tuesday, Oct. 10, 2017. Amp does practice and demonstration searches regularly to maintain her training.

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Corporal Matt Sanchez and Amp search a locker room at Fountain Middle School in Fountain, Colo. on Tuesday, Oct. 10, 2017.

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Students pet Amp while Corporal Matt Sanchez walks her through the crowd at Fountain Middle School in Fountain, Colo. Photographed on Tuesday, Oct. 10, 2017. Amp is very friendly and likes to interact with the students.

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Corporal Matt Sanchez points high on a locker for Amp to search at Fountain Middle School in Fountain, Colo. on Tuesday, Oct. 10, 2017. Sanchez and Amp search the gym locker room frequently because it is one of the least disruptive places they can search.

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Amp sniffs around the outside of the Dean Fleischauer Center at Fountain Middle School in Fountain, Colo. on Tuesday, Oct. 10, 2017. Amp does an external perimeter search every day to make sure no one is hiding things on the grounds.

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Amp sniffs an open locker at Fountain Middle School in Fountain, Colo. on Tuesday, Oct. 10, 2017. She is trained to identify six different narcotics, though her work at schools is mostly preventative: just knowing she is around lowers student drug incidents.

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Amp pulls Corporal Matt Sanchez while practicing a search outside the Dean Fleischauer gymnasium at Fountain Middle School in Fountain, Colo. on Tuesday, Oct. 10, 2017. Sanchez doesn't stop Amp from pulling since she is trained for search and rescue.

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Amp sniffs lockers at Fountain Middle School in Fountain, Colo. on Tuesday, Oct. 10, 2017. She is trained to identify six different narcotics, though her work at schools is mostly preventative: just knowing she is around lowers student drug incidents.

(The Gazette, Nadav Soroker)

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Corporal Matt Sanchez gives Amp her toy after completing a search of a locker room in Fountain Middle School in Fountain, Colo. Photographed on Tuesday, Oct. 10, 2017. Amp is trained using her toy as positive reinforcement.

(The Gazette, Nadav Soroker)

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Corporal Matt Sanchez pets Amp after searching a locker room at Fountain Middle School in Fountain, Colo. on Tuesday, Oct. 10, 2017. Amp earned her name from her high energy levels.

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Amp plays with her toy after finding keys in a field at Fountain Middle School in Fountain, Colo. on Tuesday, Oct. 10, 2017. Amp is rewarded with her toy after completing a task.

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Amp, a German Shepard, is the only police dog dedicated to a school district in Colorado at Fountain Middle School in Fountain, Colo. Photographed on Tuesday, Oct. 10, 2017.

(The Gazette, Nadav Soroker)

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