Bob Eden and Ron Cloward have over 70 years of combined K9 experience. Ron handled three K9’s during his tenure with the Modesto Police Department. He was the unit sergeant and trainer for 6 years. Promoted to Lieutenant in 2006 he remained the unit Commander and Trainer until retiring in 2011. His 30 years of experience provide new and existing K9 Unit supervisors with unique insight in the management of agency K9 teams.
Bob Eden is a 28 year retired police veteran with over 35 years of dog training experience in law enforcement, military and personal protection applications. In his final years of law enforcement he was a detective with the Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit investigating organized crime. Early in his career he developed the Delta Police K9 Unit and served as the lead police dog trainer for the Department for 16 years. He is the author of two books, "Dog Training For Law Enforcement" and "K9 Officers Manual", and currently working on a third.
Together, they bring over 70 years of combined K9 experience to the table in virtually any aspect of law enforcement K9 operations and training.
Bob & Ron, along with their troop of International instructor team provide a number of programs throughout North America. These programs include K9 Supervisor and Officer Development programs and hands on K9 training in virtually every aspect of police K9 operations, whether it be patrol, tactical ops or detection work.
Customized programs are also available on request.
This 3 day event is covers the fundamentals you need to know to protect yourself and your agency from liability. Topics include, but are not limited to: Legal Updates, K9 Unit Record Keeping, Handler Selection, Canine Selection, Dealing with Problem Handlers, Policy Reviews, Why K9 Units Fail, Use Reports, handler Critical Incident Reviews, Problem Supervisors, Protecting your Investment and much more. Critical Incident Scenarios and Problem Solving exercises will be a significant portion of this hands on table top training regimen.
To attend this program you are required to bring your current K9 unit policy and examples of current training and deployment records. These will be used during the scenario based training exercises.