Our Police K9 Trainers Course can be done in either 6 weeks or 8 weeks. The course is customized to meet the needs of each individual student. Students enrolling in these courses must be a current police canine handler or military handler or trainer. The courses will allow the students to work completely green K9 candidates (including puppies) and bring them through each step of instruction to a fully trained canine. Students will learn obedience, detection, agility, tracking/trailing, article search, building searches, apprehension, decoy techniques, and environmental exposure building. Students will learn multiple approaches to each task. Since canines learn differently, we believe trainers should know and understand many ways to teach a particular task. Students will learn proper selection practices for canines that will be brought into our kennel and learn how to properly choose a canine that will meet the needs of a law enforcement agency.
The course will certify the attendee to train K9’s for their departments as well as to perform in-service training for their current department canines.