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Patrol Detector Dog Handler

Overview

The Patrol Detector Dog Handler Course is a comprehensive training program designed to prepare canine teams for work in detection and patrol operations. The course includes academic instruction on canine safety, health care, conditioning principles, and safety protocols for explosives and narcotics. Detection training emphasizes odor recognition, search patterns, and passive response to target odors in diverse environments. Patrol training focuses on bite work and tracking, ensuring canine teams are equipped for real-world scenarios.

Patrol Detector Dog Handler
Patrol Detector Dog Handler
Patrol Detector Dog Handler
Patrol Detector Dog Handler

Admission Requirements

Must be a High School or GED graduate.

Course Details

Course Code: AK9ITA - 005

Duration: 8 Weeks

Clock Hours: 320

Admin Fee: $100

Course Cost: $22,700

Academics

  • Orientation on canine safety, health care, grooming, kenneling, and transportation
  • Principles of conditioning: operant and classical conditioning
  • Safety protocols for handling and transporting explosives and narcotics
  • Kennel safety practices and procedures
  • Introduction to escape training, canine sensory spectrum, and titration levels

Obedience

  • Application of conditioning principles: reward schedules, fixed/variable ratios, and intervals
  • Basic commands: “sit, stay, down, heel, come” and walking in the heel position
  • Obstacle agility course navigation
  • Conditioning dogs to respond to verbal and hand commands through operant conditioning and positive reinforcement

Detection

  • Canine odor recognition protocols: 4-hole variable and odor wall
  • Practical search application: buildings, vehicles, warehouses, stadiums, offices, open areas, parcels, luggage, and bomb threat response
  • Conditioning dogs to detect and passively respond to target odors across various environments using operant conditioning methods

Patrol

  • Bite work, grip development, and decoy mechanics
  • Pursuit and apprehension techniques
  • Apprehension from vehicles, with and without gunfire, and vehicle extractions
  • Skills in handler protection, prisoner escorts, recalls, and outs
  • Tracking and trailing
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