**This Course will be limited to four Students per class.
This is a physically demanding and challenging course. please come prepared.
Become an asset, not a handicap, to your agency’s training group by improving your skills to the enhance the performance of your department’s Police service Dogs. This is a 24 hour “Hands on “Class, with personalized and individual training conduction by Adlerhorst Staff. Students will spend 3 days working the Basic Handler’s Class.
Topics/Areas to be covered:
- Proper use and application of safety equipment to minimize injuries and reduce K9 related worker’s compensation claims.
- Proper application, timing, severity and utilization of corrective tools and equipment.
- Learn to properly identify the dog’s drives (prey/defense) and agitate accordingly.
- Improve and hone your Guard $ bark techniques to enhance alerts and increase safety officers and the public.
- Develop techniques to enhance “transitional “behavior.
- Proper muzzle fighting and undercover sleeve applications and techniques.
- Learn and develop confidence in the bite work: taking “high bites”, leg and body bites”, learn how to properly “slip” a bite suit.
- Agitation for Building and Area searches, Vehicle extractions, Attic insertions, working “the Blinds” ground fighting, Gunfire, “stake out” and “civil” agitation and much more.

