Entry Level Police Service Dog Training Class
240 Training Hours
Goals Of The Course
To provide 240 hours of intensive training for law enforcement personnel in the handling, deployment and care of a Police service Dog. Upon successful completion graduates will be able to operationally handle a Police service Dog as an assistant to law enforcement and the general public.
Graduate students receive a certificate. The dogs receive a internationally recognized title, APSD 1.
Certification to be accomplished by certified instructors.
This is a community college course with 5 college credits. (Ca. residents only)
I. Theoretic Instruction
- History of the species canine.
- Chronological history of the use of dogs in Police Service.
- Canine behavior.
- How the dog learns.
- Training objectives and techniques.
- Theory and techniques to enhance agitator/helper skills
- Instruction in types and proper utilization of training equipment.
- Health, care and feeding of the Police Service Dog.
- Current case law and legal parameters involved in the use of a Police Service Dog.
- Preperation for court apperances.
- Preparing and maintaining training records.
II. Practical Instruction
- Safety during training.
- Understanding the Police Service Dog’s abilities.
- Understanding the Police Service Dogs learning process.
- Guard and bark training done properly.
- Enhance alerts.
- Develop confrontational behavior.
- Accelerate transitional training.
- Reading, understanding and proper reaction to dogs alerts.
- Evidence search.
- Area search.
- Directed search.
- Building search.
- Proper use of all training equipment.
- Proper handling of surveillance, searches, arrests and transporting of suspects.
- Working with other Police Officers.
- Understanding the handlers responsibility to insure all deployments are done within your agency’s policy and procedures manual.
All training is per a comprehensive written standard, tested in the courts.