NYPD officers at the 19th Precinct who heroically responded to last week's Midtown mass shooting that claimed four lives received a surprise visit on Thursday from therapy dogs.

When shots rang out inside 345 Park Ave. on July 28, Capt. Julieann Stapleton recalled, the officers of the 19th Precinct sprung into action without a second thought — and without considering the mental toll the response to this emergency would inflict.

“Every day we train for this, train to run into danger when everybody's running away from it. And last week, we saw you guys do exactly that,” Stapleton told the officers at the Aug. 7 afternoon roll call. "We are also trained to go to a job and then move on to the next one. But unlike every other job, that is not something that we're going to be able to just move

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