Police K-9 Magazine – Issue 94

6 | Featured K-9 Unit: Naperville Police Department K-9 Unit

14 | K-9 Tracking: Tracking from the Beginning

24 | K-9 Healthcare: Faster Recovery, Strong Dog: Light-Based Healing for Working Dogs

30 | K-9 Legal: What is the Value of K9 Certification?

38 | Scent Detection: False Alerts

46 | Future Focus: Forensic Geo-Tracking: A Technological Revolution in the Search for Clandestine Burials

56 | Search & Rescue: BSAR 105

62 | K-9 Advice & Opinion: The Malinois Effect – Part 2

68 | K-9 Training: From the Training Ground to the Street: Preparing the Operational Detection Dog

On the Cover/Photo Credit:
Naperville Police Department K-9 Unit

Issue 94 Print:

6 | Training: What is NePoPo?

14 | Search & Rescue: BSAR 104

20 | K-9 Healthwatch: The Aging Dogs

26 | K-9 Advice & Opinion: K-9 Problem Solving

38 | K-9 Legal: PAWS OFF

44 | Search & Rescue: Human Remain Search

56 | K-9 Training: Downtime Training Ideas

62 | K-9 Advice & Opinion: Bridging the Divide

68 | K-9 Advice & Opinion: The Malinois Effect

On the Cover:
Group DIANE Belgium

Photo Credit: FLASHBANG Magazine

Issue 93 Print:

6 | Scent Detection: Sometimes Old School Methods are Still the Best

12 | K-9 Advice & Opinion: Do Handler Stress Levels Affect their SAR Dogs?

18 | K-9 Legal: Canine Records in Court: What do you Have to Produce?

26 | Featured K-9 Unit: Cherokee Co (GA) Sheriff’s Office K-9 Unit

32 | Search & Rescue: BSAR 103 for Law Enforcement

36 | K-9 Advice & Opinion: Is Looking, Learning?

40 | K-9 Advice & Opinion: Can the Completion of Detection Training be a Cause of Problems?

50 | K-9 Advice & Opinion: Evolving Your Police K-9 Team’s Operational Performance

60 | K-9 Advice & Opinion: DogBase: How Tomorrow’s Working Dogs Train

66 | K–9 Nutrition: Dentistry Matters

74 | K–9 Healthcare & Conditioning: The Unseen Benefits of First Aid Training for Working K-9’s

On the Cover:
Deputy Robert Currie & K-9 Atlas Cherokee (GA) Sheriff’s Office

Photo Credit: Amber Cloy Photography

Issue 92 Print:

6 | K-9 Advice & Opinion: K-9 Training Records

12 | K-9 Advice & Opinion: You Train/They Train

18 | E-Collar Training: E-Collar and the Hard Canine: Outing and the Recall

30 | Search and Rescue: The Wandering Patient and Law Enforcement

34| Featured K-9 Unit: Baldwin County (AL) Sheriff’s Office

40 | K-9 Advice & Opinion: Does the KNPV Dog Still Meet the Demands of an Operational Working Dog?

50 | K-9 Advice & Opinion: Your Dog Will Either Show You or Tell You How to Train It

56| Scent Detection: A Synopsis of Explosive Detection Dogs’ Training Aids

66 | K-9 Nutrition: Natural Diet: Preventing Nasty Diseases

74 | K–9 Healthcare & Conditioning: It’s a Shepherd Thing…

On the Cover:
US Marshal Criminal Investigator Frank Kruchten & Explosives Detection K-9 Jimmy

Photo Credit: Cindy Keating

Issue 91 Print:

6 | K-9 Advice & Opinion: You + K9 = Team

14 | K-9 Advice & Opinion: Know Before You Go

20 | E-Collar Training: Positional Obedience and Tactical Movements with the E-Collar

30 | Tracking: Importance of Self-Discovery in Trailing

34| Featured K-9 Unit: US Capitol Police

40 | K-9 Legal: You Were Just Subpoenaed for a Case with K-9 Evidence: Now What?

50 | K-9 Advice & Opinion: The Dumb End of the Leash

56| Search and Rescue: BSAR 102 for Law Enforcement

64 | K-9 Advice & Opinion: The K-9 Reset: A Training Tool You Can Master

70 | K–9 Advice & Opinion: Living with Mobility Decline in the Retired Working Dog

On the Cover:
Shawn Haynes & K-9 Lord and Larry Bell & K-9 Major, K-9 Technicians for US Capitol Police

Photo Credit: Faith Danielle Photography

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6 | Bitework: Bitework Training and a Lack of Control: A Serious Topic

14 | Tracking: Basic Thoughts on Hard Surface Tracking

22 | E-Collar Training: Motivational Obedience with the E-Collar

32 | K-9 Advice & Opinion: Contact and Cover: Tactics Driven Deployments

40 | Featured K-9 Unit: Sunrise (FL) Police Department

50 | Bitework: Incorporating Verbal Aggression with Bitework

56 | Search and Rescue: BSAR 101 for Law Enforcement

62 | K-9 Advice & Opinion: Rolling with the Punches

67 | Training: Who Are You Training to Catch?

74 | K–9 Legal: Keeping the Shine on the Badge: Defending Against a Personal Attack on the Witness Stand

On the Cover:
Mike McDevitt & K-9 Talon,
Members of North Aurora Fire Protection District that are assigned to IL-TF1 Urban Search and Rescue

Photo Credit: Cal Engel

Issue 89 Print – SOLD OUT:

6 | K-9 Advice & Opinion: Another View from the Dark Side

16 | K-9 Advice & Opinion: Challenges of the Modern K-9 Unit

24 | E-Collar Training: Communicating with Your K-9 Through the E-Collar

33 | K-9 Healthcare & Conditioning: Paws to Consider

40 | Featured K–9 Unit: Lafayette (LA) Police Department

52 | K-9 Advice & Opinion: Train Like You Fight; Fight Like You Train

58 | Scent Detection: Applying the OODA Loop Decision Making to Scent Detection Work

66 | K-9 Advice & Opinion: Principles of Canine Conditioning

72 | K–9 Nutrition: K-9 Nutrition

On the Cover:
Lafayette (LA) Police Department
Sr. Cpl. Matthew J Benoit & K-9 Bruno

Photo Credit: Scott Clause, USA Today Network

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6 | K–9 Training Muzzle Training and Desensitization to It

12 | K-9 Advice & Opinion What is a Decoy/Helper?

20 | K–9 Training Context Shift

28 | K-9 Advice & Opinion Picking the Right K-9 Partner

34 | Scent Detection What Do Explosives Smell Like to Dogs? Part 2: Contamination Problems

40 | Featured K–9 Unit Larimer County (CO) Sheriff’s Office

52 | K-9 Advice & Opinion K-9 Success or K-9 Failure

60 | Spotlight Operational K-9 Medical Care, Education and Legislation in the State of Wisconsin

68 | K–9 Healthcare & Conditioning Dealing with the Aging Working Dog

74 | K–9 Healthcare & Conditioning Heat Stroke

On the Cover:
Larimer County (CO) Sheriff’s Office
Sergeant Jackie Stimac & K-9 Negan

Photo Credit: Robert Yone Photography

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8 | Bitework The Out

16 | K-9 Advice & Opinion Dog Selection and Training: Part 2

22 | Scent Detection What Do Explosives Smell Like to Dogs or How Do They Perceive Them?: Part 1

30 | K-9 Advice & Opinion Tales From the Dark Side

40 | Featured K–9 Unit Wausau (WI) Police Department

50 | E-Collar Training Teaching the K-9 to Understand E-Collar Pressure as Motivation: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

60 | K–9 Training Prong Collar 101

66 | K–9 Legal Cross Examination: Tactics for Surviving the Last Sanctioned Blood Sport

72 | K-9 Advice & Opinion So You Want to Breed and Raise Police Dogs

On the Cover:
Wausau (WI) Police Department
Officer Jason Pacey & K–9 Astor

Photo Credit: Ethan Bares,
Community Communications Specialist
Wausau (WI) Police Department

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6 | K–9 Advice & Opinion: When Will They Learn

12 | Featured Team: Teamwork: K-9 Class of 2021

18 | K-9 Advice & Opinion: The Link Between the K-9 Handler and the Investigator, Detective and Agent

24 | K-9 Advice & Opinion: Dog Selection and Training: Part 1

32 | K-9 Training: Protection Dog Training Fundamentals: The Effective Use of Equipment in Balanced  Protection Dog Training

38 | Featured K–9 Unit: Delta (BC, Canada) Police Department

50 | Scent Detection: Explosives Detection Canine Training: Raising the Bar

58 | K–9 Advice & Opinion: The Dark Side: Part 2

64 | K–9 Advice & Opinion: Grooming the German Shepherd/Malinois/Labrador

72 | K-9 Healthcare & Conditioning: K-9 Medical Care Implementation

On the Cover:

Lynn Haven (FL) Police Department
Cpl. Meachum & K–9 Marshall

Photo Credit: Michelle Higgins

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