How Police K9 Trainers Can Benefit from a Professional Dog Trainer School Along with your department’s SWAT team and vice/narcotics unit, the Police K9 Unit is one of the highest liability areas within any agency. Due to the risk involved, a department would never allow a rookie officer to be the leader of their departmental…
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Using Police K9 Teams to Create a Police K9 Perimeter A police K9 perimeter can be an excellent use of a police K9 resource. Police dog teams can help keep the area secure, both inside and out. A fleeing suspect from a building would have little chance of crossing a police K9 perimeter in order…
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Building Search Techniques – Safely Conducting K9 Building Searches Conducting building searches with a police dog can be one of the most dangerous aspects of working as a police k9 handler. Employing some specific building search techniques will allow you to have more control of the situation; you can conduct searches more safely and more…
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Scent Articles – How to Use Them in Training Tracking & Trailing Dogs Utilizing scent articles is an integral part of training tracking and trailing dogs for search and rescue and police dog training. Understanding how and when to use them is important to the overall success of the tracking or trailing dog team. In…
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