FUNCTIONAL K9 DEPLOYMENT Course

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Owner/Operator Houston K-9 Academy since 2013

Jason started out working with dogs at a very young age putting on a bite suit for the first time at age 7. After spending 4 years in the United States Air Force as a Security Police Officer, he started his professional career working at VLK in 2000. In 2008, Jason started and operated the 1st American owned working dog kennel in Europe. Living and working alongside of Europeans gave Jason a different perspective on how Police dogs are breed, raised, and trained. Jason has dedicated his life to working dogs: according to Jason "It's all I've ever done". Jason has always said "Run your dog, not your mouth". 

Jeremy started his law enforcement career in 1999 with the Baytown Police Department in Texas where he worked as a patrol officer. In 2004 Jeremy was selected as a K9 Handler and assisted the narcotics task force with his first partner K9 Blue, a single purpose narcotics detection K9. In 2005 Jeremy returned to the Baytown PD Patrol Division as a K9 Handler assigned to Patrol working K9 Blue. In 2012 Jeremy was assigned K9 X, a dual purpose K9. In 2013 K9 X was integrated into the Baytown SWAT team moving the role of K9 from the outer perimeter to part of the entry team with our unit. In 2020 Jeremy was assigned his third K9 partner, K9 Jafar, a dual purpose K9, where they currently serve as a K9 team on patrol and on the SWAT team. Jeremy currently serves as K9 handler and trainer for the Baytown PD K9 unit which consists of 7 dog teams. Jeremy has been a certifying official for the NNDDA since 2011, has served as an adjunct instructor for several basic handler courses at the Houston K-9 Academy and instructor at the Dothan Alabama K9 training seminar since 2019. 

FUNCTIONAL K9 DEPOLOYMENT COURSE

This one-day course is designed to help the K-9 handler utilize critical thinking skills when it comes to deploying in realistic training scenarios based on actual live deployments.  This course will build on other courses taught at the conference to include muzzle work, gunfire around the K-9, tactical obedience, and formations during movements.  Handlers will be given the building blocks they need to build their K-9 teams from basic movements to high stress realistic training scenarios.  This course will take the training beyond the basic level deployment to various forms of controlled chaos so when a real high stress deployment occurs, it is not chaos from the K-9 team.  Topics covered include vehicle bail outs, door pops away from the vehicle, high-risk stops, vehicle assaults, and high-risk searches.

REQUIRED EQUIPMENT:

-All equipment normally used for patrol functions

-Training muzzle

-Training weapon (sims/blank/blue gun) if available

-Long line