Our Classes
Foundational Obedience:
This three-day (24-hour) course provides handlers with the fundamentals of obedience training. The class details classical conditioning, operant conditioning, and how to shape behavior.
K9 teams will participate in on-lead individual and group-focused obedience exercises progressing to off-lead obedience as well as generalizing their dog’s obedience in bite-work and other patrol-type deployments.
As part of the Foundational Obedience training package, K9 teams will be introduced to the 16-hour Tactical Obedience course.
Tactical Obedience:
This two-day (16-hour) course builds upon our Foundational Obedience class.
During this course, K9 teams will participate in uniform exposure exercises, off-lead tactical movement drills, down-stays, in-between-the-legs heeling, cover and move drills with multiple officers, exposure to gunfire, and generalization of the dog’s obedience under stress.
This class prepares K9 teams for our K9/SWAT Integration Course.
Training Concepts:
This three-day (24-hour) course is a blend of several courses with an emphasis placed on training in drive, marker training, and operant conditioning.
The course is a mixture of classroom lecture-style presentation along with practical application exercises.
K9 teams will participate in foundational obedience, tactical obedience, obedience under stress, review of E-Collar training techniques, and bite-work.
Intro to E-Collar
This three-day (24-hour) course provides a comprehensive overview on how to properly introduce your police service dog to an electronic collar.
The class details how the E-Collar is introduced using operant conditioning training techniques.
Students will learn how to pair their electronic collar during obedience, then implement these techniques during tactical obedience and apprehension work, to include the recall.
To cap off the E-Collar class, K9 teams will participate in generalization exercises to ensure a proper training foundation has been established.
Certification Prep:
The length of this course is dependent on the needs of each K9 team (minimum two day/16-hour). Certification prep covers bite-work, to include the verbal out and recall, building searches, area searches, obedience, and narcotics detection.
Barricaded Subjects:
This two-day (16-hour) course provides an overview of K9 as a use-of-force option, covering relevant case law and industry standards.
In addition, this course provides K9 teams real-world, scenario-based training and exposure for both the handlers and their K9 partners on how to safely navigate a barricaded subject call.
This course is geared toward patrol calls that do not meet the threat assessment for a SWAT response but require a tactically sound deployment incorporating K9 as a use-of-force option.
Integration of SWAT and K9:
This three-day (24-hour) course is a detailed and comprehensive integration of SWAT and K9.
Handlers and SWAT operators will participate in classroom lecture-style presentations, discussion, and hands-on training incorporating the K9 team into SWAT deployments.
K9s will be exposed to less-lethal munitions, LSDDs, and chemical munitions.
K9 teams will be integrated into high-risk warrant services, vehicle barricades, residential barricades, open-air takedowns, vehicle takedowns, building searches with K9s, open-area searches, and K9 apprehensions.
Hosting agencies must provide training sites, equipment, and decoys.
High Risk Deployments:
This two-day (16-hour) course is an advanced training course for K9 teams who have operational experience and want to test the abilities of both the handler and their K9 partner.
K9 teams who participate in this course must have a solid training foundation. Their dogs must be able to work in muzzle and their bite-work should need little to no correction.
Administrative K9 Unit Review:
Please contact Erick for more information on the services we can provide.
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