Vigilant Canine Services International is currently establishing operations in all 50 states. We are looking to add key personnel to the VCSi team in order to deliver the highest quality, most comprehensive law enforcement K-9 training available in the U.S. VCSi has a number of training positions available in states across the nation.
VCSi requires that all K-9 training staff have law enforcement experience. We believe that to properly train law enforcement personnel in scenarios that are potentially life and death situations the training should be administered by a trainer with an understanding that only comes from real law enforcement experience.
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Terry Fleck
Red Bluff, CA (January 25, 2012) Vigilant Canine Services International, LLC would like to welcome Mr. Terry Fleck as their K-9 Liability Coordinator.
Terry Fleck, Ed.D, is a Deputy Sheriff II / Canine Handler (Ret.) from South Lake Tahoe, California. Terry has been in law enforcement for 28 years and has been involved with police dogs during most of that time.
Mr. Fleck has been a police dog handler and trainer for 28 years and has trained and handled three police dogs, patrol dogs cross-trained for search and rescue, narcotic detection, evidence recovery, cadaver recovery, avalanche recovery, and tracking / trailing.
He is an expert in the field of canine liability. Author of the Canine Legal Update and Opinions for supervisors & administrators and patrol, narcotic & contraband, explosive, tracking, search & rescue and accelerant dogs, Terry tracks and updates the canine industry on current case law and legal trends.
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Orlando, FL (January 23, 2012) Vigilant Canine Services International, LLC has set its sights on the state of Florida. VCSi is one of the larger K-9 services companies with operations both foreign and domestic. VCSi currently services numerous law enforcement agencies throughout the USA and their international clients include; NATO, the U.S. government, and a host of other government elements, countries and large security providers.
In the USA, VCSi provides local and state law enforcement agencies with dogs and K-9 training. They offer a Law Enforcement Program for K-9 services that was developed to save department’s money while maximizing and optimizing the training each K-9 receives. VCSi is accomplishing this by providing quality police dogs, then guaranteeing the dog for 5 years. They also provide the required K-9 training at the department’s facility to eliminate the cost of travel for the department.
VCSi is the only K-9 company in the world establishing operations in all 50 states. With FL having a large number of working dogs being utilized by law enforcement; VCSi felt it appropriate to make the operation in FL a priority.
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Red Bluff, CA (January 9, 2012) Representatives from Canadian Jebel K-9 Training and Services Center, a registered canine services provider in the Sultanate of Oman has selected Vigilant Canine Services International LLC, as their sub-contractor to provide working dogs and training to government personnel within the country of Oman. The representatives from Canadian Jebel K-9 Training and Services Center visited the Red Bluff VCSi training and kennel facilities and met with VCSi management and staff.
“We are delighted to partner with the members of the Canadian Jebel K-9 Training and Services Center team to provide these services to the people of Oman”, stated Buck Dikes, CEO, Vigilant Canine Services International, LLC.
VCSi has been supporting the freedom efforts internationally since 2007 and is currently one of the largest provider of detection dog teams for private security and military in the world.
For additional information about VCSi, or to schedule an interview with VCSi’s CEO Buck Dikes please call Shaun Hoover at (530) 517-1771 or shoover@vcsik9.com.
Vigilant Canine Services International is in the news again. The Redding Record Searchlight news agency recently ran a story on VCSi. This story outlined the growth, expansion, and the success of VCSi and our CEO Mr. Buck Dikes. The story highlights how VCSi was created and the positive financial impact the company has had on the law enforcement K-9 industry in California.
VCSi works hard to make world class K-9 services and K-9 training accessible to all law enforcement agencies regardless of budget issue departments are facing.
To view the full story click the link provided. FULL STORY
Kabul, Afghanistan (November 3rd, 2011) Vigilant Canine Services International, LLC (VCSi), was recently informed, that one of our Morale Canines “LUCY” was involved in an incident that took her life.
We received the below email to inform VCSi and other troops that “LUCY” had passed.
“For those that may be unaware, the Camp Phoenix Vet Team lost our morale dog, Lucy. She was the German Shorthaired Lab that would hang out in our office and with the Combat Stress Team. She was owned by VCSI, and her program manager was nice enough to allow us to “adopt” her in order to interact with Soldiers throughout Kabul to make their deployment a little brighter. It worked! She became domesticated with us and a true team member.
She was killed in action during the incident on Saturday, while traveling with the Combat Stress team from Phoenix, a LTC and an NCO, whose loss we also feel greatly. She was traveling to Dubs to play with the Soldiers.
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VCSi would like to help celebrate the decades of law enforcement service Lt. Cloward selflessly served with the Modesto Police Department.
Lt. Cloward’s career includes 26 years of progressive law enforcement experience. He started working a police dog in his third year of law enforcement. Lt. Cloward worked three different canines on patrol prior to being promoted to sergeant in 2000. He has been involved with police canines for 23 years. He has attended basic and advanced handler courses certified by California P.O.S.T.
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Bob Eden
Vigilant Canine Services International welcomes Bob Eden, Owner of Eden Consulting Group and police veteran (Ret.) as their Director of Training Programs. Bob will join VCSi’s training management team and will assume the duties of Director of Training Programs having responsibility over planning, organizing, leading, development, management, implementation and execution of training programs, seminars, and courses worldwide.
Bob has over 28 years of progressive law enforcement experience. He has over 30 years of dog training experience and 16 years as a police dog handler. Bob has authored two books, “Dog Training for Law Enforcement” and “K9 Officers Manual”. He also authors training articles for a number of law enforcement magazines. In 1991 Bob created and developed the International Police K9 Conference, with the purpose of providing professional training seminars to K9 officers around the world. This conference is still offered today.
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Vigilant Canine Services International recently attended and helped sponsor the 5th annual Invictus Law Dog Conference. This conference was held in Las Vegas, Nevada May 25th and 26th. The top K-9 trainers, K-9 handlers, and K-9 exhibitors traveled from across the US for this event.
At this event, handlers were able to choose from a variety of classes taught by experts in the areas of Narcotics Detection, Explosives Detection, and Patrol. VCSi’s CEO Buck Dikes taught a class K-9 Search Techniques combined with K-9 Training for the Non-Handler Officers. VCSi’s Director of Law Enforcement Services, Ron Cloward, taught two classes: K-9 Character Traits and Handler Selection for Supervisors.
VCSi was honored to be able to attend and help sponsor this great K-9 event. VCSi personnel were excited to be able to teach classes and help handlers trouble shoot issues they were having in the field. It was great to meet all of the K-9 handlers and law enforcement agencies that stopped by the VCSi booth. We are looking forward to the opportunity to provide quality K-9s and world class K-9 services to all of you.
On May 5th the Tracy Press featured the Tracy Police Department’s K-9 unit and VCSi in a story entitled “Tracy police dogs to do double duty.” A representative from the Tracy Press joined VCSi and Tracy PD’s K-9 unit for a recent training day. The Tracy Press highlighted that some of the K-9’s trained by VCSi were dual-purpose dogs, trained for patrol and narcotics detection. The story talks about the training, the capabilities of the K-9s, and the bond that officers have with their K-9 partners.
VCSi’s regional K-9 trainer John White is quoted regarding the K-9’s superior sense of smell. VCSi’s Steve Holidy was featured in photographs for the story while in a bite suit helping with bite training scenarios. The Tracy Police Department is a valued client of VCSi and we are honored to be part of their K-9 team.
To view the full story you can visit this link for the Tracy Press.
