Our Patrol K9 training course consist of the following training disciplines:

• Obedience including on and off leash control responding to verbal commands and hand signals.
• Agility and confidence training including vertical jumps, broad jumps, ladder climbing, elevated walks, crawling, slippery floors, and loud and unusual noises.
• Apprehension including single and multi-person apprehensions, recall and call outs, apprehensions from vehicle, vehicle extraction, handler protection, prisoner escort, apprehension with gunfire.
• Article Search/Evidence Recovery includes finding articles with evidentary value such as crime scene articles or articles used in a crime. Training will involve articles that both contain human scent and articles void of human scent.
• Open area search utilizing airborne scent work to detecting hidden suspects in outdoor areas of concealment.
• Building search utilizing tactical search techniques for locating and apprehending suspects hidden within buildings.
• Tracking/Trailing with scent discrimination over multiple surfaces and tracks at least one hour old and one mile long.