K9 Roll of Honor
K9 Hero
Sultan
San Francisco Police Department
— San Francisco, CA
Fall
German Shepherd
Service Record
End of Watch
September 6, 1963
Tour of Duty
10 months
Age
2
Gender
Male
K9 Profile
Breed
German Shepherd
Origin
Germany
Cause
Fall
Agency
Department
San Francisco Police Department
Location
San Francisco, CA
Incident
K9 Sultan was killed when he fell over a wall while searching for a missing person near the Golden Gate Bridge.
The missing person's vehicle had been found in a parking lot near the bridge. K9 Sultan and his partner had been dispatched to the area to help locate the missing person. While K9 Sultan and his partner were searching on a walkway directly below the bridge, his partner leaned over a railing to look below them when K9 Sultan fearing for his partner's safety darted towards him and fell 60 feet below onto rocks at the bottom, killing him.
K9 Sultan was one of the first K9s attached to the departments K9 Corps and served with the San Francisco Police Department for ten months.