Re-Certifications

Re-Certifications are for Narcotic, Explosive, and Dual Purpose. Note: CERTIFICATION IS GOOD FOR ONE YEAR. ALSO WE HIGHLY RECOMMEND THAT ALL OFFICERS THAT ARE ATTEMPTING OUR CERTIFICATION TRIALS SHOULD HAVE COMPLETED A BASIC HANDLER'S COURSE.

Narcotic

Areas of Certification will be vehicles, buildings, and open area. There will be total of 20 aids.

You must locate 85% of training aids.
No more than 10% of responses can be incorrect.
At least 2 articles to test for accurate odor discrimination will be placed.
At least 20 minutes of blank search time will be required (unknown) with no incorrect responses occurring.

Explosive

Areas of certification will be vehicles, buildings, and open areas. There will be a minimum of 2 training aids per odor tested (at 17 odors that is 34 training aids).

You must locate 90% of training aids.
No more than 10% of responses can be incorrect.
At least 5 articles to test for accurate odor discrimination will be placed.
At least 20 minutes of blank search time will be required (unknown) with no incorrect responses occurring.

Dual Purpose Narc/Patrol

K-9 Teams will be tested in the Following areas:

Obedience
Criminal apprehension with bite/no bite situations
Sucessfully complete stand-off or recall on command
Release bite on command
Searches are in open areas, buildings, handler protection, and gun fire