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By;
Charley Kirchner; Video Format; VHS; 78 mins.
Retired in 1980 after 20 years as an officer, dog handler, senior trainer, and canine instructor
for the Metro Police Department in Washington D.C. During that time, he trained the first
explosive-detector dog in the world. Since 1980 he has remained very active in the field of
service-dog training, teaching countless seminars and continuing to train narcotics dogs for a
number of police departments.
Narcotics I Describes everything a prospective handler or canine
supervisor needs to know about the initial steps of organizing a narcotics-detector dog program
including: testing and selecting prospective detector dogs; correctly handling narcotics used in
training; motivating the dog to search; teaching a strong alert; and the first major transition in
training. Police or Military Only. |