“Higher Learning for You and Your Dog”
K-9 Kampus offers Handlers Courses for all of the major disciplines we teach. Below is a brief overview of various handlers courses, and most may be tailored in length or content in accordance to the student’s experience, departmental requirements, or specific deployment requirements.
Scenting Disciplines
Narcotics
Scent and Scent Theory
Selection, storage and use of training aids
The importance of Training / Deployment Records
Establishing a consistent alert
Focusing the detection dog
Basic and advanced search techniques
The major illicitly used narcotics, to include structure, composure, and manufacture
Narcotic effects
Narcotic K9 Deployment Protocol
Legal issues surrounding the use of detection dogs
Trafficking signs and indicators
Interdiction skills
Explosives
Scent and Scent Theory
Selection, storage and use of training aids
The importance of Training / Deployment Records
Establishing a consistent alert
Focusing the detection dog
Basic and advanced search techniques
The major explosives families, to include structure, composure, and combinations
Explosives Detection Dog (EDD) Deployment Protocol
Legal issues surrounding the use of detection dogs
An introduction to Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs)
An introduction to the Malevolent Vehicle Threat (MVT)
An overview of the suicide bomber
Tracking
Scent and Scent Theory
The importance of Training / Deployment Records
Practical tracking imprinting
Footstep to footstep vs. “true” tracking
Focusing the tracking dog
Handling the tracking dog
Night Tracking
Deployment protocol of the Tracking K9
Introduction to Topographical maps
Introduction to Compass and GPS
Search and Rescue
Scent and Scent Theory
Selection, storage and use of training aids
The importance of Training / Deployment Records
Establishing the reliable alert
Tracking (to include night tracking)
Area Search
Disaster Search
Structural Building Collapse (SBC)
Refining the recall / refind
Man-Tracking
An overview of Lost Person Mentality
Deployment Protocol
Scene Preservation
Topographical Maps
GPS
S&R Code of Ethics
Search and Recovery
Scent and Scent Theory
Selection, storage and use of training aids
The importance of Training / Deployment Records
Establishing the reliable alert
Human Remains Detection (HRD)
Maintenance of the HRD training aids
Area search
Disaster Search
Refining the recall / refind
Man-Tracking
Deployment Protocol
Scene Preservation
Topographical Maps
GPS
S&R Code of Ethics
Search Management
Understanding Tracking, Area Search, Disaster Search, and Human Remains Detection (HRD)
Understanding Lost Person Mentality
An introduction to Man-Tracking
The importance of Training / Deployment Records
Initiating and Managing the Search Operation
Deployment Protocol
Scene Preservation
Topographical Maps
GPS
S&R Code of Ethics