Luke, a German shepherd, joined the Villa Park Police Department as a K-9 officer this summer. Officer Matt Rol vel Rul is Luke’s handler. Luke works and lives with Rol vel Rul. “He’s like my shadow, even at home,” said Rol vel Rul. In addition to being trained to sniff out narcotics like cocaine, heroin and methamphetamine, Luke is capable of assisting in building searches, human searches and article searches.