Percy, or Officer Hops, is not your average rabbit.
This undated photo shows Carson, who rescued this rabbit in 2022, in Yuba City, Arizona. The YCPD announced on April 7, 2023, the rabbit's promotion to the rank of ‘wellness officer’ just days before Easter Sunday. The bunny is named Percy because it was found on Percy Avenue, in Yuba. — Yuba City Police Department via APHe was given the title of Yuba City Police Department’s wellness officer on April 6, as part of the station’s efforts to step up mental wellness efforts.
Officer Ashley Carson told the British broadcasting station that she had found Percy, who appeared lost, in October 2022 while on patrol: “I started to call him and said, ‘Here bun bun’ and he came running to me. He stood on his hind legs and I picked him up.”The police department adopted him a few weeks later and what began as a joke of making Percy the station’s wellness officer became reality. Now, he even wears his own navy work vest.
Lieutenant Michelle Brazil who works in the department’s K9 unit, said: “Being able to hold him, pet him and step back from the situation for a minute to regroup is vital.Percy, who roams around the office freely, has his own pen equipped with toys, a toy tunnel and a litter box.In Australia, a stray cat named Splashe made Bourke Police Station in New South Wales his new home in 2017 after he was found cold and hungry outside the station.
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