Exclusive | Take a bite out of NYC crime: NYPD calendar highlights canine heroes and human partners
This isn’t your average dog and pony show.
The NYPD has released its Canine & Friends 2026 calendar with nearly 20 fur babies featured inside the book — many named in honor of fallen officers.
The annual calendar is paid for with private funds through the non-profit New York City Police Foundation, and includes members from the Counterterrorism Bureau’s Critical Response Command, the Emergency Services Unit, Mounted Unit and the Transit Bureau.
“This is the 10th edition of the NYPD K-9 and friends calendar,” said Taylor Kahn, the foundation’s director of development. “This really highlights the work that NYPD officers are doing around the city to keep our city safe with their K-9 partners and of course the horses of the mounted unit.”
The 13-month calendar includes 18 dogs and three horses.
This year’s cover features Chase, Taso, Rett and Cato in Grand Central Station alongside their cop handlers.
March showcases Detective Katrina Narvaez with her K-9 Freddy, named for her deceased dad, Lt. Federico Narvaez, who was killed in the line of duty in Brooklyn — fatally shot responding to a domestic incident in Flatbush in 1996 — when she was just 9 years old.
Narvaez became a cop to honor her dad’s legacy and was ecstatic to be paired, 22 years later, with a wire-haired pointer/Labrador mix at the Emergency Service Unit.
“I feel honored that they let me name him after my dad,” she told The Post back in April. “I wasn’t sure if they were going to allow that.
“It meant a lot to me when they said that I could.”
Freddy, 8, is a specialist in finding guns and anything that can explode, including potassium chlorate, C4, dynamite and other compounds. The duo works out of the Brooklyn Army Terminal in Red Hook, where ESU canines are based.
May highlights K-9 Diller — named after Detective Jonathan Diller, a new father who was tragically gunned down during a car stop in Far Rockaway in March 2024 — and his handler Detective Anthony Marciano.
August focuses on a half-dozen dogs and their handlers, including officer Antonia Ocasio with K-9 Taso, who was named in honor of Detective Anastasios Tsakos, who was killed by a drunk driver that had spewed hatred for cops on a podcast.
December shows Transit Bureau K-9 Unit cop Michel Bellinger with K-9 Zadroga from the Detective Borough Manhattan South Homicide Squad.
The pup is named after NYPD officer James Zadroga, whose 2006 death from 9/11-related respiratory disease sparked the federal legislation that provides health care and aid for first responders and other victims of the terror attacks.
The calendar costs $35 and can be purchased at www.nycpolicefoundation.org. Proceeds go to foundation programs supporting the NYPD.
