![]() This article is intended to present these ideas and the reason to undertake this training. As I mentioned already, the articles to follow in this series will explain in detail how to achieve the training results. If you ask most K-9 cops which phase of training that they and their dogs enjoy most, obedience doesn’t normally make the top three, but when you see how it can not only be enjoyable for you and your dog (using the power of reward rather than old yank/crank methods) and how it can make your deployments more fluid and efficient, it can be a part of training that you look forward to doing because of its utility. These articles on tactical obedience are intended to get you thinking about how obedience exercises can be trained and utilized in order to make your deployments more efficient, safer and more successful. Last year I wrote about doing scenario based training in general for your in-service work. Some of the things in this article may be new for you to consider, but change in our industry is coming upon us faster and faster and it is our job to keep up with the times. In the present article, we are going to discuss general approaches to tactical obedience training that will be discussed in more detail in the follow-on articles (linked at the end of this article). In that article, I went into depth about the process for breaking down exercises into component parts, how to reward and correct and get your dog on a variable reward system. In a previous article, I wrote about obedience fundamentals, as well as compartmentalizing obedience training (“Component Training for Police K-9s: Obedience” (K-9 Cop Magazine May/June 2013)). Teaching your dog to respond to commands in a normal tone and ensure that they respond quickly with correct behavior the first time in environments that are new and distracting takes planning, training and understanding of how to properly employ positive reinforcement and positive punishment. Yelling hard multiple commands is not tactically sound. However, tactically, we teach our officers in other contexts noise discipline, so as to not give away their position of cover or worse, a position of concealment. ![]() In other words, obedience that is carefully trained and planned to gain a specific result important to the deployment of police dogs to achieve safer and more efficient usage.įor many police dog handlers, certification obedience allows them to give multiple loud commands to achieve an obedience result. This article will focus on tactical obedience applications. ![]() Heeling, changes of pace, turns, stays out of motion, recalls, drops and hand signals, while all worthwhile commands, are done generally on a field without distractions of any kind.Ī good in-service program should take these beginning skills and make sure they are woven into deployments in a useful way. So, what some police dogs know often has more to do with performing in a sterile certification environment rather than performing on an actual deployment. Most certifications have obedience and agility requirements that are done “out of deployment context” for the most part, meaning on a soccer field, around cones, doing exercises that are mostly old and outdated, but are meant to show “control” and the ability to follow commands. Obedience for police patrol dogs, as it is now, is mainly practiced for the purpose of passing a certification test. In this multiple article series, we will explore police K-9 obedience from a tactical perspective. pdf version with images from K-9 Cop Magazine Photos by Britney Bradshaw & Derek Cain Photography ![]() Article by Jerry Bradshaw & Sean Siggins
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