Course Description

All Things K-9 is a class designed to highlight the potential and capabilities of a K-9 team. Instructor Josh Brainard will give current K-9 handlers a fresh perspective and deeper understanding of all things K-9. Not only will this class help all officers better understand how police working dogs function, but it will also explain how to interact more efficiently alongside K-9 Teams. Supervisors will gain a better understanding of how to support these valuable resources and prevent liability against their units. For those police officers with aspirations to become a K-9 handler, this class will give them a jump start to understand the science of the craft!

Course attendees will learn about K-9 narcotics sniffs of vehicles, currency, parcels, buildings, and open areas. This course will also explore the use of a K-9 in high-risk vehicle stops, tracking, trailing and open area searches for suspects. Instructor Brainard will talk about the use of perimeters for containment, as well as collecting, preserving, and presenting scent evidence as it relates to manhunts. Real deployment videos will be shown to explain how suspects were located and narcotics were seized.

On Demand FAQs

Course Access

Name: All Things K-9
Start: 2022-11-10T08:00:00+00:00
End: 2033-11-10T17:00:00+00:00

Street Cop’s on demand law enforcement training courses are designed for officers to watch at their own pace, as time permits.

When will I get access to the on demand course?

Upon purchasing an on-demand course, you will be prompted to upload your LEO ID. Once we confirm your ID, you will be granted access to our on-demand training platform via email. Please allow 24 hours for your access to be approved.

Can I watch the course at my own pace?

Yes, you will have the ability to play, and pause, the course so that you can watch at your own pace.

How long will I have to complete the course?

After your identification has been approved you will have access to the course for a total of 30 days.

Are the courses only for law enforcement?

Currently Street Cop only offers training to law enforcement officers. You will be required to upload identification prior to getting access to our on demand training platform.

Instructor

Joshua Brainard

In 2011, Josh began working at one of the largest police and military kennels in the world, where he held a supervisor position- training, handling, and decoying dogs. Josh oversaw several training programs and imprinted working dogs in narcotics detection and tracking. Josh also contracted as an Explosives Detection Handler at major events like Cincinnati Bengals NFL games.

As a police officer, Josh is a K-9 handler and is currently teamed with a dual-purpose K-9. Since 2017, Josh has been assigned to his department’s Criminal Interdiction Unit as a K-9 Handler, as well as their Street Crimes Unit and High Risk Tracking Team. Josh and his partner have tracked and apprehended several dangerous individuals and are responsible for many significant seizures of drugs, firearms, and hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash.
Josh has thousands of hours of K-9 training and is a graduate of several renowned K-9 Tactical Tracking schools as well as Advanced Scent Detection, K9 Trailing, and K-9 Imprinting courses. Josh also has a resume stocked full of Criminal Interdiction training.

Josh and his partner have been medalists at the American Working Dogs K-9 Olympics numerous times and Josh was named Top Cop at his agency in 2017. Instructor Josh Brainard has trained hundreds of working dogs and is currently the lead K-9 trainer at his police agency. Josh Brainard comes to Street Cop with significant knowledge on police working dogs and how they can enhance our missions!

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