The goal of every Police Department is to minimize liability issues while maintaining a effective and reliable K-9 component.
A higher standard comes through understanding the pack relationship and how to achieve harmony within pack and the roles.
Unfortunately harmony doesn't always occur consistently or at a level needed to reduce liability issues.
A training system which adopts and recognizes the relationship between dog and handler, at the pack level, is the best guarantee to maintain a high standard while reducing liability issues.
Training consists of various interactions which creates and maintains the pack roles.
The Police Dog handler is mimicking those traits of the lead pack dog, he or she is adopting the lead pack role, knowingly or unknowingly, becoming pack.
Control comes from achieving harmony within the pack relationship.
A protective trained dog will not respond to voice command / authority at the level needed if true overall role change has not occurred.
The dominant pack dog sees the world through an overly possessive state of self or being.
Tracking becomes more of a pathway through the dominant role to take possession rather than a conditional state as follower.
The dominant dog lacks consistent focus on what the handler really wants.
The protective aspect of training takes on a higher level of possessiveness through this dominant role.
The tracking dog will lose focus due to this possessive state, his or her attention and focus will waver from the immediate task, from what the handler wants.
Once the quarry, or suspect, is located the dog will not respond, or poorly, to the handlers command.
Often the handler will project higher authority, through leash and voice, to elicit the dog to respond and release.
Harmony through pack has not be achieved.
The follower dog possesses the suspect conditionally, through pack leader, and submits to his or her authority through voice command.
This is achieved during training using leashes and lines, interaction and conditioning, voice and reinforcement, authority and role change.
Role change and harmony on the level needed must occur and be maintained.
Pack leader owns everything.
A liability issue often is a reflection of a bigger issue and problem within the program itself.
With proper training, oversight and standard a Police Department can benefit from the best of both worlds with a reliable and effective K-9 Program.
A higher standard comes through understanding the pack relationship and how to achieve harmony within pack and the roles.
Unfortunately harmony doesn't always occur consistently or at a level needed to reduce liability issues.
A training system which adopts and recognizes the relationship between dog and handler, at the pack level, is the best guarantee to maintain a high standard while reducing liability issues.
Training consists of various interactions which creates and maintains the pack roles.
The Police Dog handler is mimicking those traits of the lead pack dog, he or she is adopting the lead pack role, knowingly or unknowingly, becoming pack.
Control comes from achieving harmony within the pack relationship.
A protective trained dog will not respond to voice command / authority at the level needed if true overall role change has not occurred.
The dominant pack dog sees the world through an overly possessive state of self or being.
Tracking becomes more of a pathway through the dominant role to take possession rather than a conditional state as follower.
The dominant dog lacks consistent focus on what the handler really wants.
The protective aspect of training takes on a higher level of possessiveness through this dominant role.
The tracking dog will lose focus due to this possessive state, his or her attention and focus will waver from the immediate task, from what the handler wants.
Once the quarry, or suspect, is located the dog will not respond, or poorly, to the handlers command.
Often the handler will project higher authority, through leash and voice, to elicit the dog to respond and release.
Harmony through pack has not be achieved.
The follower dog possesses the suspect conditionally, through pack leader, and submits to his or her authority through voice command.
This is achieved during training using leashes and lines, interaction and conditioning, voice and reinforcement, authority and role change.
Role change and harmony on the level needed must occur and be maintained.
Pack leader owns everything.
A liability issue often is a reflection of a bigger issue and problem within the program itself.
With proper training, oversight and standard a Police Department can benefit from the best of both worlds with a reliable and effective K-9 Program.
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