VENTOSA KENNEL

PATROL/NARCOTICS K9 HANDLER COURSE

February 10 – March 21, 2025

April 7 – May 16, 2025

June 2 – July 11, 2025

July 28 – September 5, 2025

September 15 – October 24, 2025

November 3 – December 12, 2025

PATROL/NARCOTICS K9 COURSE

Our Patrol/Narcotics K9 training course consist of the following training disciplines:

Patrol Training

• Obedience including on and off leash control responding to verbal commands and hand signals.
• Agility and confidence training including vertical jumps, broad jumps, ladder climbing, elevated walks, crawling, slippery floors, and loud and unusual noises.
• Apprehension including single and multi-person apprehensions, recall and call outs, apprehensions from vehicle, vehicle extraction, handler protection, prisoner escort, apprehension with gunfire.
• Article Search/Evidence Recovery includes finding articles with evidentiary value such as crime scene evidence or articles used in a crime. Training will involve articles that both contain human scent and articles void of human scent.
• Open area search utilizing airborne scent work to detecting hidden suspects in outdoor areas of concealment.
• Building search utilizing tactical search techniques for locating and apprehending suspects hidden within buildings.
• Tracking/Trailing with scent discrimination over various types of surfaces on tracks at least one hour old and one mile long.

Narcotics Detection Training

• • Narcotic detection training on Marijuana, Cocaine, Heroin, and Methamphetamine or other narcotic odors as your needs dictate.
  • K9 search procedures of buildings, vehicles, open and wooded areas, and packages/luggage.

Price for this course includes:

• • Trained K9
  • Handler training (6 week course)
  • Lodging for handler during training (Optional)
  • All necessary training equipment
  • Classroom materials and training manual
  • K9 Health and Performance Guarantees
  • Complete veterinarian exam of K9, health and vaccination records

(Includes lodging) 

Discount for more than one handler and K9 from the same department.

If you have additional questions, please call 252-370-5353.

OUR POLICE DOGS AND OUR POLICE K9 TRAINING SCHOOL IS SECOND TO NONE

We guarantee any K9 team trained at Ventosa Kennel will be capable of passing certification requirements with any certifying organization in the US today.