Tactical/ directional canines

PAT NOLAN

Following a successful 30-year career training retrievers for hunting and competitions Pat began to apply lessons learned in e-collar conditioning and remote directional training to working with military and police units.

This is a partial list of agencies Pat has trained:

GSG9 der Bundespolizei
BORTAC US Customs Special Operations Group
ATF
Netherlands Police Agency, Specialist Criminal Investigations Department, Special Operations Unit, Driebergen
U.S. Federal investigative police
FT. Bragg, NC. Training U.S. and International Special Operations Units
1st Special Forces Group, Ft. Lewis, WA
3rd Special Forces Group, Ft. Bragg, NC
5th Special Forces Group, Ft. Campbell, KY
7th Special Forces Group, Eglin Air Force Base
10th Special Forces Group
U.S. Air Force, Office of Rapid Product Development
Small units within the Royal Netherlands Military

In addition to working with operational K9 units, Pat has trained canines for proof of concept projects for agencies within the department of defense. He currently maintains a DOD Secret clearance.

TACTICAL/ DIRECTIONAL CANINES

Herding and hunting retrievers have been working under control at great distances for many years. In recent years the working K9 community has come to recognize the value of this training in tactical situations. The ability to send a K9 to a distant objective, and to stop and redirect them in route, is of great benefit.

Properly trained remote directional skills can improve the effectiveness and efficiency of canine search teams regardless of whether they are searching for drugs/explosives, humans or human remains, or endangered wildlife scat. The remote standoff capability increases handler safety and provides canine teams the ability to rapidly sweep large areas and distant objectives.

Our Tactical Directional training program has assisted SWAT teams, both state and federal; counter terrorism groups and intelligence gathering units, both US and allies; search and rescue teams; and explosive detection programs by improving their directional skills, programs and canines.

EQUIPMENT REQUIRED:

-Duty Equipment

-Lead & Long Line

-K9 Vest/ Harness

-Rewards