Dorn, David

About Dave Dorn- David Dorn is a Medical Retired Sergeant form the San Francisco Sheriff’s Department. David has over 30 years of K9 Training and Experience. David worked in Law Enforcement for over 18 years. Over 16 years of experience in the K9 Unit. For most of David’s canine handling career, he handled two (2) canines on a daily basis. David implemented the Canine Unit in 1998. Today, he owns and operates K-9 Specialized Training and Consulting at his Facility in South Dakota, where he and his wife continue to train and consult several agencies in initial and advanced detection dog and handler training, implementing, managing and maintaining their agencies K9 Units. David continues to work in the Private Professional K9 Services as an owner-operator and handler. David has thousands of hours in basic and advanced Peace Officer training, thousands of hours in basic and advanced Police Service Dog, NDD & EDD Handler Training. David has participated in over 10,000 individual canine searches in the field, continuing to work a EDD & NDD in the field. In addition, he has been present and observed hundreds of NDD and EDD deployments by other canine teams from all over the nation. David was a member of the SFSD Emergency Services Team, Holds a California POST Intermediate Certificate, is a California POST Certified Canine Team Evaluator, and a TSA Cargo Third Party Team Evaluator, as well as other Association Certifier and Competition Judge. For more information or questions please contact k9stac@yahoo.com

Website: K-9 STAC

Class: “Normalization of Risk”, In Explosive Detection Dog Handling

“Normalization of risk”, a common human tendency, which is to become desensitized to the risk around us and subconsciously accept high levels of risk as being normal after continuously repeating the behavior without negative consequences. This class will help those handlers who are currently working or considering working an Explosive Detection Dog better understand the specific trainings, practices and utilization that can mean the difference between success and failure in the real world of Explosive Detection and to carefully reevaluate the risks we accept as normal or mundane and build on them.