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
Vigilant Canine Services International is offering a 3-Day Problem Solving and Muzzle Training Techniques Course. This workshop is designed specifically to help handlers develop the proper skill set to correct control issues with their dogs, and improve their dogs responsiveness to control commands.
Specifically, positive training techniques will be used to reduce the stress levels that are so common in many dogs which prevent them from responding to commands. Problem solving will be focused on managing or improving responses to call the dog off a bite, recall work and increasing the intensity of the dog’s work ethic. Muzzle training will focus the dog on civil work thus improving deployments in real life situations and avoiding equipment fixations.
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Vigilant Canine Services International is offering a 3-Day Problem Solving and Muzzle Training Techniques Course. This workshop is designed specifically to help handlers develop the proper skill set to correct control issues with their dogs, and improve their dogs responsiveness to control commands.
Specifically, positive training techniques will be used to reduce the stress levels that are so common in many dogs which prevent them from responding to commands. Problem solving will be focused on managing or improving responses to call the dog off a bite, recall work and increasing the intensity of the dog’s work ethic. Muzzle training will focus the dog on civil work thus improving deployments in real life situations and avoiding equipment fixations.
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Vigilant Canine Services International is offering a 3-Day K9 Assisted Interdiction Course covering aspects of parcel, passenger vehicle and airport interdiction. The first day will consist of a lecture that will explain to the attendees how to identify suspicious shipping characteristics and the use of air and overland transport smugglers use to move and conceal contraband. The attendees will complete the course with an understanding of the tactics and indicators used to identify smugglers.
This course is only available to current law enforcement personnel.
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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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Vigilant Canine Services International will be attending the California Narcotics Officers Association (CNOA) 47th Annual Training Institute and Law Enforcement Exposition November 12th and 13th in Sparks, Nevada. The CNOA is expecting around 2000 of its members to attend this year’s conference. The CNOA is a great association and we are pleased to be invited to their conference again this year. VCSi extends its list of world class K-9 services to all the members of the CNOA. We will customize K-9 programs to meet the needs of any CNOA member’s agency. We look forward to seeing you at this year’s expo.
