Info LE and SAR Training
What to Look For:
We recommend that you check references and insurance when you decide upon a law enforcement K9 trainer. A police K9 is no trivial tool that anyone can work with. Ensure that your trainer has not only professionally worked the police dogs they claim to be able to train, have the credentials to back it up, and are fully licensed, bonded, and insured for this business. Georgia K9 will gladly provide references upon request.
We are professionally licensed:
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, & Explosives: 9-68-005-01-1C-01065
CA Beureau of Security and Investigations: 124481
GA Business Control #: 09023585
Cherokee County, GA: 30142
We are members of the following K9 organizations:
IACP
NAPWDA
NNDDA
DWAA
Our K9 Trailing/ Tracking Program is California POST Certified Level IV
Course Control Number: 5410-21150-08
One-on-One Training Opportunities:
Our training facility is located on a peninsula to the Etowah river oxbow. We have 2.5 acres of dog runs and kenneling. We have approximately 4000 acres of wooded training ground directly behind the kennels.
We are set up to house law enforcement or SAR students at the facility. Our “board & train” programs include all of your training, lodging, breakfast and dinner.
Our 5-Day In Depth Training Programs in the K9 Arts of
Trailing/ Tracking, Human Remains Detection, Narcotics Detection, and Explosives Detection:
Our 5-Day training seminars can be held at our facility or a setting of your choosing. We require extensive open ground in rural and/ or urban environments depending upon the level of training conducted; basic, intermediate, or advanced. Day one is orientation and basic classroom presentations involving scent theory, collection, and preservation followed by K9 handling techniques. Days 2-3 are all hands-on fieldwork. Day 5 is reserved for K9 certification dependent upon student advancement.
Seminars at our Canton Facility are for 1-8 students and their K-9’s. The course includes all instruction carried out by two instructors and assisting staff members.
Off-site training with larger numbers of students can be provided for upon request. The fee schedule will vary with location, travel, student number, and other logistics. Please call us at your convenience to discuss Georgia K9’s TTT program coming to you!
K9 Trailing/ Tracking Work
Trailing, though a relatively modern term, actually has it’s roots in English and early American history when bloodhounds were used to hunt criminals, and in the case of our original colonies, marauding native American tribes in conflict with early settlers. The hounds were “scented” on a particular human odor and allowed the freedom to follow that scent wherever it might have led. The history for this can actually be found in original want ads for the period of colonists looking for bloodhounds.
Trailing is a descriptive word for the art of allowing a dog to follow human scent wherever human scent might be, on the ground or in the air. It can also be taken one step further by adding scent discrimination to the equation. Each and every animal, human or otherwise, produces a distinctive odor based on species and other sub-determining factors such as infirmity, relative age, sex, and certain individual identifying traits. The amount of odor produced is dependant upon several primary factors, mental condition such as fear or anger, exertion, and relative health issues
GA K9 Trainers have set the standard for modern trailing training. Our instructors are considered expert witnesses in the areas of trailing and scent evidence. For more details on this exciting program please see our TacticalTrackerTeams.com web site
Training for Real Case Work with Real Finds
Scent Discrimination
Trailing is often considered synonymous with scent discrimination, or the ability for a dog to detect an individual human odor amongst many. There are numerous schools of thought regarding this issue. Some people believe that dogs do not have this ability and instead work on a basis of the freshest “track” out of an area. In order to properly debate this subject it would require an entire book. Suffice it to say, we believe all canids have the ability to scent discriminate and it is what sets them apart in our natural world as incredible hunters. However, we do not believe that this ability is always 100% accurate. There are forces on the trail of prey that can confuse and distract a dog. This is especially true when a dog is required to wade through the melting pot of human aroma in the middle of suburbia or a downtown city street. The degree to which the dog works is commensurate to its training and native traits or prey drive.
 Georgia K9 Handlers are experts in the field of scent discrimination and have been relied upon for expert witness testimony in criminal cases.
We can be relied upon to provide our students with proper documentation of their training for court purposes. GAK9 instructiors have provided expert testimony in support of our students and their K9 training.
Scent Discrimination Link
Narcotics Detection *Law Enforcement Only*
 Georgia K9 trainers are experts in the field of narcotics detection. We use the most modern training techniques currently available in the field.
GAK9 is in the process of building a mock residential buidling including parking area and "search" vehicles. We believe that handlers should train like they work, with realisim.
GAK9 Trainers are expert investigators in the areas of street drugs, their identification, distribution, packaging, and general make-up. Let our expertise in this field work for you!
  
Herstik Wall for source odor dectection work
Evidence Detection *Law Enforcement Only*
 Georgia K9 places a new spin on evidence detection. We take our scent discrimination practices and apply them to article detection at crime scenes. Missing a firearm at a crime scene? Looking for biological evidence? A Georgia K9 Academy evidence dog might just work wonders for your department.
Human Remains Detection
Georgia K9 offers comprehensive water and land human remains detection courses based on real world casework. We have worked cases in various parts of the United States and applied this hand-on experience to our training modules. We have varied and aged material in numerous locations to work with unencumbered by tons of other K9 traffic. This allows the handler to truly read the dog’s behavior for the source material alone. Our water work is located only moments away from our facility.
  
Just a few of the agencies we have worked with over the years:
  
Kevin Baughn & Zak-San Jose PD, Matt Broad & Morgan-San Mateo SO, Jesse Grant & Athena-Oakland PD
Georgia K9 NTC, LLC
12850 HWY 9
Suite 600-187
Alpharetta, GA 30004
770-721-MyK9 (6959)
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