Police Dog Training Requirements

There is nothing more important to an police officer than safety and control over a situation. A K9 companion is loyal, trustworthy and able to pick up clues that an officer may miss with the naked eye. These dogs can sniff out drugs, follow scents to rescue people, take down suspects and still remain a loyal and loving companion to a police officer. K9 Units are crucial to the line of police work and certainly indispensable.

  1. Police Dog Training

    • K9 Solutions Center in Ohio provides in-depth and focused training for you and your dog. Trainers specialize in Belgian Malinois and the German Shepard dog breeds. You and your dog's K9 Police training includes detector training of narcotics, explosives, or accelerants; tracking using police style or scent association, area search, which includes building and article searches, handler protection, obedience and K9 care and first aid. This is intensive training, meant to turn out only the finest police K9 unit by instructing both you as a handler and your dog.

    Drug Training

    • The training consists of one day or three day courses taught by Sergeant Robert Dauberman and Detective Jeff Turner, both of whom have twenty years of experience with dogs and drug busts. The course objectives for both you and your dog are extreme and grueling. After the course is completed, dog and owner should be able to determine if an investigation should continue after a routine traffic stop. You should be able to use documented information from the stop in a courtroom setting to justify your actions. Your dog and you should be able to identify suspicious behavior, lying statements and deceptive actions including nonverbal clues. You and your dog should also be able to locate hidden compartments in a stopped car for drug paraphernalia and the dog should keep you and the suspect safe, even if the dog has to take down a suspect.

    Eden Dog Programs

    • Eden Consulting Group out of Cloverdale, British Columbia, Canada also offers top quality programs for you an your dog. They train dogs in such courses as the Patrol Dog Program, the K9 Commanders course, the Advanced Tactical/ERT K9 Program, the Explosives Dog Program, the Narcotics Dog Program and the Tactical K9 Deployment for Patrol Officers. After completing the coursework, your dog will emerge mastering several crucial concepts to law enforcement and will be able to carry out duties to save not only your life, but to take down the bad guys.