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Conference Overview

The International Police K9 Conference programs are renowned worldwide for the quality of instructors and programs alike. In evaluating our programs we continue to develop more advanced programs in direct response to requests from officers who have previously attended.

We challenge experienced officers while continuing to provide basic training techniques to new K9 teams. The entire patrol program emphasis is on tactical deployments with practicals involving high risk deployments, entry work and advanced live fire training. The Patrol Dog program will include day and night tactical problems, tactical building entries, K9 deployment for felony car stops, live fire training, deployment in chemical munitions, German muzzle philosophies and techniques, legal updates, criminal psychological profiles and much more. Classroom events include lectures on liability concerns, K9 Officer Safety, Training Techniques and problem solving ideas. These programs are instructed by leading police K9 instructors from throughout the United States and Canada. Our new narcotics dog program is an exciting addition to the conference and include updated training with the latest in packaging, handling and search techniques.

The Administrators Program provides more information on civil liabilities as it pertains to the administration and operation of a K9 unit. If you are an administrator for a K9 Unit, we strongly recommend this program. We have added more detail to this portion of the program due to specific requests by administrators from previous conferences. Use of force, administration of a K9 Unit, record keeping, choosing training schools, K9 procurement and the latest in liability updates are only a few of the numerous classes provided in this program.

All programs are limited in the number of applicants accepted, in order to maintain a high training ethic. Registrations will be based on a first come, first served basis and must be pre-paid in advance in order to secure a position. If your registration is not prepaid, you will be placed on a secondary list of applicants who will be contacted if positions are still open after the closing registration date. NOTE: Programs for officers bringing their dogs fill very rapidly. Once the slots are confirmed for each program, no further registrations will be accepted.

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Patrol Dog Program

Our reputation was built on the tactical training approach in our patrol dog programs. This program includes day and night tactical problems, tactical building entries, K9 deployment for felony car stops, live fire training, deployment in chemical munitions, German muzzle philosophies and techniques, legal updates, criminal psychological profiles and much more. Classroom events include lectures on liability concerns, K9 Officer Safety, Training Techniques and problem solving ideas. In many locations, depending on the host agency availability, helicopter deployments are also included in the training regimen. Some programs will also include our K9 trauma care program.

Advanced Tactical/ERT K9 Program

Our new advanced canine tactics school is designed to serve those canine teams who have previously completed the patrol portion of the international police k9 conference, or those experienced teams who are looking to further challenge the limits of their canine training experience.

The focus of the school is to address both the tactics of officer safety for the canine team, as well as preparing canine teams to work well with their own agencies tactical (SWAT/ERT) units.

The goal of the advanced canine tactics and swat school is designed to be a challenging and realistic canine training experience that will change the way officers think about canine training and identify more opportunities for the safe and effective deployment of police service dogs in high risk situations.

K9 Commanders Course

• Budgeting
• Choosing Training Schools
• K9 Procurement
• Liability Concerns
• Legal Updates
• K9 Unit Record Keeping
• Community Relations Aspects

This program is designed to help administrators understand the full capability of their dog teams and how they can achieve higher standards.

We provide experienced K9 Unit managers with the latest legal updates and management skills on law enforcement use of police dogs. At the same time, we provide a working foundation for administrators new to the field of dog services. This program is particularly beneficial to administrators who have no prior hands on K9 experience. Here you can discover how valuable a resource you have and how to best deploy those resources.

• Where can I procure good K9 stock?
• What should I look for when buying dogs?
• How much training do my officers need?
• How do I locate a reputable school?
• How do I protect my city from civil liability?
• What new initiatives for K9 should I consider?

These are only a few of the many aspects of K9 Administration this course is designed to answer. If you are an administrator over a K9 Unit, this program is designed for you.

Explosives Dog Program

Our new explosives detection program is provided by experienced police dog traininers and EOD technicians familiar with the ever changing threats of explosives dog work. This program provides hands on real life training.

• Odor Recognition
• What the techs what you to know
• Motivational techniques
• Signal, pressure & praise
• Operational searches
• Threat Assessment & Search Planning
• Scenario based training
• Dignitary Details
• Environmental Concerns
• Cryptic Letter Residence - Threat/Planning
• Dead Man Search - Residence & Vehicles
• Luggage and Packages
• Knowing Your Dog - Proactive vs Reactive
• Problem solving

Narcotics Dog Program

Our new narcotics dog program is an exciting addition to the conference and include updated training with the latest in packaging, handling and search techniques.

• Team Evaluations
• Case Law Updates
• Problem Solving
• Smuggling and Interdiction Techniques
• Search/Indication Techniques
• Search & Seizure Updates
• Residential Search Techniques
• Vehicle Search & Interdiction
• Cargo, Freight & Other Searches

Tactical K9 Deployment for Patrol Officers

This program is new and designed to offer an introduction to patrol officers of how to work with K9 teams. In this program you will learn the techniques to setting up containment,, backing up your K9 officers, tactical movement with the K9 team, arrest techniques and how to work with your K9 teams in potentially lethal confrontations with suspects. You will learn how to escort your K9 team on a high risk track, cover them during building searches and how to work fluid situations such as high risk vehicle assaults with your K9 team. You will learn criminal psychological profiles that indicate where a suspect will flee and how to effectively interfere with that flight to allow your dog handler to close in and make the arrest. You will learn canine behavior and come away with a better understanding of how the K9 team operates. For those patrol officers interested in a K9 career, this is an excellent course to give you the inside track on K9 training and deployment. During the program you will take an active part in the training of the dogs during the morning programs and will be actively involved in the tactical deployment scenarios with the teams during the evening deployments. The program involves range work and live fire training working side by side your K9 team. This program is designed for patrol officers and is recommended to any officers interested in learning how to work more effectively and tactically with their K9 teams.

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Conference History

The International Police K9 Conference is held in various locations throughout North America and attended by police officers from around the world. These conferences are unique unto themselves in their format. To date we have instructed over 2000 officers from nations including Canada, United States, Great Britain, Portugal, Mexico, Norway, Holland, Belgium, Norway, China, Indonesia and Sweden in all aspects of high risk tactical patrol, SWAT, narcotics and explosives applications of police dogs at these conferences. Conference locations were as follows:

Parksville, British Columbia - 1991
Tempe, Arizona - 1992
Las Vegas, Nevada - 1993
Las Vegas, Nevada - Spring 1994
Indianapolis, Indiana - Fall 1994
Mesa, Arizona - Spring 1995
Orlando, Florida - Spring 1995
Indianapolis, Indiana - Fall 1995
Round Rock, Texas - Fall 1995
Anaheim, California - Spring 1996
Orlando, Florida - Fall 1996
Ventura, California - April 1997
Houston, Texas - May 1997
Milwaukee, Wisconsin - August 1997
Orlando, Florida - December 1997
San Jose, CA - May 1998
New London, Connecticut - October 1998
Waukesha, Wisconsin - April 1999
Ventura, California - June 1999
Tavares, Florida - March 2000
Boulder, Colorado - May 2000
Sacramento, California - October 2000

Houston, TX - January 2001
Lake County, Florida - March 2001
Portsmouth, New Hampshire - September 2001
Lake County, Florida - March 2002
Lake County, Florida SWAT School - March 2002
New London, Connecticut - September 2002
Anaheim, California - September 2002
Lake County, Florida - April 2003
Lake County, Florida SWAT School - April 2003
Phoenix, Arizona - October 2003
Lake County, Florida - March 2004
Phoenix, Arizona - September 2004
Lansing, Michigan - June 2005
Aurora, Colorado - September 2005
Modesto, California - September 2006
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania - May 2007
Tucson, Arizona - November 2007
Alameda County - California - June 2008

Conference Overview

The International Police K9 Conference programs are renowned worldwide for the quality of instructors and programs alike. In evaluating our programs we continue to develop more advanced programs in direct response to requests from officers who have previously attended.

We challenge experienced officers while continuing to provide basic training techniques to new K9 teams. The entire patrol program emphasis is on tactical deployments with practicals involving high risk deployments, entry work and advanced live fire training. The Patrol Dog program will include day and night tactical problems, tactical building entries, K9 deployment for felony car stops, live fire training, deployment in chemical munitions, German muzzle philosophies and techniques, legal updates, criminal psychological profiles and much more. Classroom events include lectures on liability concerns, K9 Officer Safety, Training Techniques and problem solving ideas. These programs are instructed by leading police K9 instructors from throughout the United States and Canada. Our new narcotics dog program is an exciting addition to the conference and include updated training with the latest in packaging, handling and search techniques.

The Administrators Program provides more information on civil liabilities as it pertains to the administration and operation of a K9 unit. If you are an administrator for a K9 Unit, we strongly recommend this program. We have added more detail to this portion of the program due to specific requests by administrators from previous conferences. Use of force, administration of a K9 Unit, record keeping, choosing training schools, K9 procurement and the latest in liability updates are only a few of the numerous classes provided in this program.

All programs are limited in the number of applicants accepted, in order to maintain a high training ethic. Registrations will be based on a first come, first served basis and must be pre-paid in advance in order to secure a position. If your registration is not prepaid, you will be placed on a secondary list of applicants who will be contacted if positions are still open after the closing registration date. NOTE: Programs for officers bringing their dogs fill very rapidly. Once the slots are confirmed for each program, no further registrations will be accepted.

Philosophy & Message of the CEO

The International Police K9 Conference is a personal endeavor with specific goals and challenges. The continued success of these programs is contingent on the quality of training and benefits police K9 handlers realize. The long term goal is to make K9 work in policing more professional in such a manner that each of our jobs is safer through sound tactical training, and to bring all officers and administrators involved in K9 work closer together in an effort to heighten our quality of work ethic and standard.

We have endeavored to find the finest and most professional instructors available in North America for this program. Each year the instructors and programs are changed slightly to continue to provide a varied and interesting program. I am confident you will find no more knowledgeable or capable instructors anywhere in the world.

None of these instructors will tell you that their way is the only way of doing things. Many of them even have different viewpoints from one another in the same field. What is important however is that the methods they use in their programs work for them! You have an opportunity to gain knowledge from their expertise, filter through the information which is provided for you at these conferences, and use those theories, training methods and techniques which you feel are applicable to your program, or to your personal abilities as a handler, trainer, or administrator.

I firmly believe that none of us have perfected the art of dog training. We are all students who are continuing to improve our skills in this field. Each of our instructors learns as much from working with the participants as do the officers who attend the conference as students. In choosing instructors with open minds and objective viewpoints, I feel we have maintained a quality within the conference that is hard to match.

In my opinion, there is no finer or more challenging career to work, than when you combine policing with the skills of K9 work. These conferences provide an opportunity to test your skills and to improve on those training problems that you might have. You have an opportunity for these five days to draw upon the knowledge of not only the finest world reknowned instructors on the continent, but also from each other. Do not under estimate the skills and knowledge of your fellow classmates. The most important lessons you may learn during these programs might not come from the instructors or the lesson material, but from your fellow officers in sharing training information.

The times ahead will be troubled times in the law enforcement community. Police dog applications are a particularly favorite target of civil liberty agencies throughout the United States at this point in time. It is up to you to maintain a level of professionalism that will protect all of us from those who seek to restrict K9 work in law enforcement. As working the streets becomes more of a danger to the officers and the citizens who we protect, there are those who are consistently trying to strip us of any physical, mental or spiritual security we now have as police officers. As police officers, and as K9 handlers, we cannot allow that to happen. Regardless of what training or apprehension methods you might adhere to, the time has come for all agencies to come together and work towards a common goal. That goal should be to provide the most effective and ethical service possible to the community for which we work. This cannot be done on continued restricted budgets and will need the support of police administrations around the country if it is to succeed.

Bruce Jackson of the Pierce County Sheriff Dept, made a statement that has set a standard for me for many years. I don’t think he realized how much of an influence he had on me at the time, but I feel his statement stands true for today just as it did then...

“Your mission is clear cut and well defined. The set of philosophies you develop in order to achieve that mission will determine whether you make a beneficial contribution to the role police dogs play in modern law enforcement or whether you become a liability which undermines the good work of many men before you.”

We need to support each other, regardless of philosophical differences if we are going to succeed in meeting these objectives. We are striving to put together the most informative K9 package available. If you have any comments or suggestions on how we can better improve our services to you, please do not hesitate to ask.

Robert S. Eden - Director
Eden K9 Group