Vigilant Canine Services International along with the Absentee- Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma K-9 Unit 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 in cooperation with the South Lake Tahoe Police Department K-9 Unit is offering a 2-Day Problem Solving and Muzzle Training Techniques Course. This workshop is designed specifically to teach handlers how to develop their dogs skills by using muzzle training techniques. These skill sets can be used to build and enhance drive in your dog as well as correct training issues. Muzzle training will focus the dog on civil work thus improving deployments in real life situations and avoiding equipment fixations.
The course will develop the students skill sets in proper decoy work, including drive manipulation and building intensity in the dogs. You will learn about proper equipment for good decoy work and learn how to work a dog using bite sleeves, bite suits as well as muzzle techniques.
When: June 18th – 19th inclusive
Where: South Lake Tahoe Police Department
Cost: $225 per student. (class will be limited and registrations will be accepted on a first come first serve basis)
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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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VCSi is proud to present a complimentary 2 day workshop in Brevard County, Florida from April 25th to April 27th inclusive.
Patrol Dog Workshop
This workshop will introduce you to the VCSi staff and the training programs now available to you in Florida. The programs are free to attend, however will be limited to 30 patrol dogs in total, and 30 officers without dogs. This hands on program includes muzzle techniques, problem solving, live firearms training with your dog, tactical building searches, tactical obedience and night tacticals. Students with dogs will be required to attend with all their street working gear and an additional 150 rounds of live training ammunition.
K9 Commanders Program
Our K9 Commanders program will provide insight into efficient K9 management. Understanding how dog selection is made and the proper teaming of handlers with dogs. Handler selection will be discussed and a recommended handler selection process offered. Legal aspects, budget considerations and how to raise funds will be touched on as well as how to manage your unit. You will have an opportunity to view the various training routines taking place with the hands on workshop and have one on one interaction with some of the foremost instructors and leaders in the K9 industry. This program is limited to the first 30 officers who apply for this program and again is free of charge, courtesy of VCSi.
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VCSi is proud to present a complimentary 2 day workshop in Tampa Florida, from April 29th to May 1st inclusive, co-hosted by the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Department.
Patrol Dog Workshop
This workshop will introduce you to the VCSi staff and the training programs now available to you in Florida. The programs are free to attend, however will be limited to 30 patrol dogs in total, and 30 officers without dogs. This hands on program includes muzzle techniques, problem solving, live firearms training with your dog, tactical building searches, tactical obedience and night tacticals. Students with dogs will be required to attend with all their street working gear and an additional 150 rounds of live training ammunition.
K9 Commanders Program
Our K9 Commanders program will provide insight into efficient K9 management. Understanding how dog selection is made and the proper teaming of handlers with dogs. Handler selection will be discussed and a recommended handler selection process offered. Legal aspects, budget considerations and how to raise funds will be touched on as well as how to manage your unit. You will have an opportunity to view the various training routines taking place with the hands on workshop and have one on one interaction with some of the foremost instructors and leaders in the K9 industry. This program is limited to the first 30 officers who apply for this program and again is free of charge, courtesy of VCSi.
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Vigilant Canine Services International along with the Thurston County Sheriff’s K-9 Unit is offering a 2-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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Vigilant Canine Services International is offering a 2-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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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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