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Kelli Collins Kelli is a certified Police Officer in the State of Georgia. She
graduated from National
K9® as a Certified
Professional Trainer. Her
certifications include: Puppy
Development, Breed
Identification, Dog Behavior,
Basic and Advanced
Obedience, Retrieval
Training, Utility Training,
Trailing and Scent
Discrimination, Personal
Protection Training, Police
Service Dog Training, and
Narcotics Detection.
Jeff Schettler
Jeff is a Police K9 Trainer
and a retired police K9
handler. He has worked for
the Alameda Police
Department, Amador
County Sheriff's
Department, and was
attached to the FBI's
Hostage Rescue Team’s
K-9 Assistance Program
designed to apprehend
high risk fugitives. Jeff is
considered an expert
witness in the areas of
scent evidence and
trailing.
Jeff is the author of "Red Dog Rising", a chronological account of his police K9 work with Ronin, a modern police bloodhound. Jeff is currently working on his second book and is a frequent contributer to various dog magazines.
GAK9 Trainers
Kevin Baughn
Kevin Baughn began training bloodhounds in Oct. of 1999. He worked as a San Jose Police Canine handler with his bloodhound partner "Zack" from 9/00 - 3/06. He has trained in Virginia, Texas, Colorado, and throughout California. Kevin and Zack worked urban cases throughout the Bay Area.. Kevin has testified in court on bloodhound cases ranging from stolen cars to homicides. Kevin and Zack have worked with and received letters of commendation from FBI, ATF, and local departments throughout the bay area.
Kevin has worked with handlers from Santa Clara County Sheriff's Office, San Mateo Sheriff's Office, Fresno County Sheriff's Office, Oakland Police Department, and several more agencies at "Urban Manhunters School" passing along trailing techniques that been proven successful. Kevin also instructs a P.O.S.T. approved course "Using Bloodhounds to search for Missing
Persons."
Coby Webb
Coby Webb is a sergeant for the Riverside County Sheriff's Department and is the agencies bloodhound handler and trainer. Coby and her K-9's are responsible for numerous criminal and missing person finds in their area. She has produced a California Peace Officer Standards and Training certified K-9 Trailing Course and she is considered and expert handler, trainer and witness in a variety of K-9 disciplines.
Mark Holmes A twenty-three year police officer currently assigned as a Detective in the Criminal Investigations Division for the last 11 years. Prior to his current assignment, Mark was a Field Training Officer for eight years. He is a member of SWAT and is also a firearms instructor, and a police academy instructor. Mark also holds the Master Peace Officer Certification from the State of Texas. Mark is a K-9 Handler/trainer for the City of Port Arthur, Texas Police Department. Involved in many high profile cases the United States, Mark has worked major cases assisting the FBI, U.S. Marshall’s Office, Texas Rangers, and other federal, state, county and local law enforcement agencies. As a canine handler, he has also been called upon to assist the U.S. State Department, the United States Consulates Office and the Mexican Consulates Office. Holmes has assisted on numerous federal and state prison escapes.
Mark was the recipient of the 2002 Sophia Silva Award given for excellence in canine mantrailing, which led to the saving of a human life. Mark is a nationally recognized canine mantrailing instructor and founded and is the president of both Texas Bloodhound Search and Rescue and the United States Mantrailing Association. Mark has taught canine mantrailing courses throughout the United States and has authored/ co-authored numerous training articles relating to canine mantrailing and scent specific canine training.
Jane Beson
Jane Beson is a volunteer Search Dog Handler and a founding member and training director of South Carolina Search Dogs. She currently works an operational black Lab in scent specific airscent. Jane and her lab; Buck, have been partners since 2000. Jane was also operational with a team mate's trailing Bloodhound.
Pam Medhurst
Pam Medhurst has been with the San Diego Sheriff's Search and Rescue Bureau for 11 years. She has been the Canine Unit leader for 2 years. Always a lover of hounds, Pam first trained and worked a bloodhound, and now uses slightly smaller hounds, beagles. She has had great success with " Snickers" the beagle in trailing along with her 3 other beagles in trailing and Human Remains Detection work. Pam has gained experience as an instructor at several schools including the Canine Training Academy in Colorado. She has written and performs a program for children called " Don't Run Around, Stay Found " that she takes to schools throughout the state. Pam has received the San Diego Sheriff's Deputy of the year award for 2000, 2004, and 2006. She has also received The Outstanding Community Service Award from Lieutenant Governor Cruz Bustamante, and the 2007 Search and Rescue Member of the Year from the Calif. Reserve Peace Officer's Association.
Brad Dennis
Brad Dennis is the National Director of Search Operations for the KlaasKIDS Foundation and its Search Center for Missing and Trafficked Children. Brad has over twenty-five years of experience in search and rescue and crisis management, and has managed search efforts for over 200 missing/abducted children around the country. He managed the community-assisted search effort following the abduction of Polly Klaas which has become the model for child abduction search strategies. Brad travels extensively throughout the United States providing dynamic and relevant instruction concerning K-9 HRD operations, advocacy to families of missing children, child abduction search management, sex trafficking of minors and serves as “Master Lead Evaluator” for the National Association of Search and Rescue (NASAR). Brad is currently working his fourth HRD K-9. Brad’s effort to locate missing and abducted children has led to the discovery of traffickers abducting and recruiting our children into the unsavory world of prostitution. Brad has been instrumental in the rescue of numerous children from sex trafficking and the intelligence he has gathered has assisted in taking down several child prostitution rings. His rescue efforts have been chronicled on CNN, The Early Show, The Today Show, Dateline, MSNBC, and 48 Hours. Besides his duties as Search Director of KlaasKIDS Foundation, he participates on the U.S. State Departments Trafficking-in-Person’s and Technology Working Group, the State of Florida Anti-Human Trafficking Task Force and the Florida Department of Children and Families Sex Trafficking Working Group. Brad is a retired Cryptologic Master Chief Petty Officer in the US Navy. He has been recognized and highly decorated for his intelligence analysis and counter-terrorism efforts.
Pam Nyberg
Pam Nyberg has been involved with volunteer search and rescue for 10 years. Pam works Labrador retrievers in human remains detection and trailing. She has been working with her current trailing partner, Bodi, since 2007.
Pam and Bodi have trained with numerous schools and have adopted the conservative approach to trailing. They are certified through NAPWDA and TTT. Bodi and Pam have also appeared on CNN, demonstrating scent specific trailing.
Pam is CART trained and a certified radKIDS instructor. radKIDS is a program that teaches children ages 3 ½ through 12 how to react and respond in the event of an abduction or attempted abduction.
Georgia K9 NTC Kennel Staff
Phoebe Bault-Kennel Master
Phoebe is a graduate of the Art Institute of Atlanta and has been involved in the professional K9 industry since 2007. She is Georgia K9 NTC's Kennel Master responsible for overseeing the general management of the kennels, dog diet & health. Phoebe also manages the Kennel Technicians.
Joseph Citta
Jospeh is one of Georgia K9 NTC's Kennel Interns responsible for overall kennel and grounds maintenance. Joseph has been interning with us since 2009. Joseph is one of our veteran trail layers for our trailing dogs.
Kelli Collins
Jeff Schettler
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Pam Nyberg
Phoebe Bault-Kennel Master
Joseph Citta
