Officer Austin Speer of the Greenwood Village Colorado Police Department, were called to a home where the family had called 911 to report that an 85 year old woman was missing from the home.
The K-9 called Merc, sniffed some of her clothes and then took off out the door.
10 minutes later Merc located her clinging to a tree on the side of a steep ravine, where she couldn't be seen from the road above.
Video of the moment shows Officer Speer reassuring the woman as the pup approaches her. “Hi, ma’am. This is a friendly dog. He found you. Isn’t that good?”
The woman's son expressed gratitude on social media “I had been searching for her for two hours and Mercury and Officer Speer found her in 10 minutes: UNBELIEVABLE! It was like watching a Navy Seal extraction."
Mercury, who joined the Greenwood Village Police force a year and a half ago, is trained to find missing persons and detect narcotics. Thanks to his skills and the teamwork of the police department, the woman was safely reunited with her grateful family.