NYPD detective who named K9 dog after hero dad killed in line of duty is promoted: ‘I think he would be proud’

An NYPD detective who named her K9 dog after her father — who was killed in the line of duty nearly 30 years ago — was promoted Friday as she told The Post her slain hero dad would be “proud.” 

Katrina J. Narvaez, 38, was one of 11 members of New York’s Finest promoted to detective second-grade at a One Police Plaza ceremony presided over by Commissioner Jessica Tisch. 

Narvaez was just 9 years old when her dad, Lt. Frederico Narvaez, was fatally shot while responding to a domestic incident in Flatbush on Oct. 18, 1996.

“I think [my dad] would be proud,” said Narvaez, who is married and expecting a child of her own – her first. “He was proud of his position in the NYPD and being around other cops and taking care of them.”

But it wasn’t until after her father’s death that she got to know his family in blue, who shared stories about him and showed her what it meant to protect and serve New Yorkers, she said.

“I didn’t really know what cops were until he passed away and I got to interact with a whole group of people, and I saw that they really cared about the community and about helping and about others,” Narvaez told The Post. “And it made me want to be a part of it.”