Conference sessions include: 

• Decoying Fundamentals (Armin Winkler)

• Adaptive K9 Deployment Strategies (Irondog K9) 2-day course

• Tactical K9 Applications (Direct Action K9)

• Arminleggan Training System (Police K9 Consultants)

• K9 Detection Training for Improved Focus and Commitment (Storm Dog Tactical)

• One-Handed Pistol Shooting for the K9 Officer (War Hogg Tactical)

• Tactical/Directional K9s (Pat Nolan)

• Tactical Canine Casualty Care TC3 (Veterinary Tactical Group)

• Handler Conditioning (Ashley Horner)

• Detection Team Problem Solving (Simon Prins, Animal Consulting Training)

• K9 Independence During Detection (Chris Tucker, North Georgia K9)

• Tracking Formations and Action on Contact (Brad Gillespie Spectrum K9) 2-day course

• Tactical Rappelling and Rope Access (REVAC USA) 2-day course

• Scenario Based Muzzle Training (Advanced) (James O’Brien, NCK9, LLC)

• CQB Fundamentals (Dave Boesch Rogers Rangers)

• Lower Extremity Targeting (Police K9 Consultants)

• Explosives Safety and Post Blast Search for Secondaries (Todd Wilber, Precision
  Explosives)

• Stressvest Reality Based Training & K9 Team Optimization (Justin Cossavant SETCAN)

• Tactical Obedience and Lethal Cover (Antonio AROD Rodriguez, ORO K9 Services)

• Laser Directional Training (Thomas Guy, CaniOps)

• Functional Patrol K9 Deployment from Patrol Vehicle (Jason Stanze Houston K9 Academy)

• Team Movement with K9 (Bellator K9) 2-day course

• NePoPo (Joris Kerchof Belgivm’s Finest Canine)

• Increasing Hunt Drive and Expanding the Building Search (Todd Mona)

• Gunfire Neutralization (Nic Fontaine Kilo III Consulting)

• Canine Legal Update: Narcotic Contraband Detection Dog (Mike Kmiecik Sheepdog
  Guardian Consulting)

• Canine Legal Update: Patrol Dog Liability (Mike Kmiecik Sheepdog Guardian Consulting)

• High Risk Track/Area Search Planning Considerations (Kevin Vicini Friction Point
  Solutions)

• Building the Dominant Mindset Through Control (Greg Doud Dog Training)

• Effective Engagement Precision Control (Ben Rader Howard Young)

• Hard Surface Tracking (Julie Case/Ultimate Canine LLC)

• Power Control (Erik Good/Good Family K9)

HOST: K9 Tactical Operations

Location
Hamilton County Sheriffs Office
18100 Cumberland Rd, Noblesville, IN 46060

S.K.I.D.D.S. / CATS, KATTS and T-MACC are a unique one-of-a-kind K9 tactical course that is designed to educate and train K9 handlers, SWAT teams, Specialty Units, Patrol Officers and Correction Officers and the Military on the deployment of police dogs in a high risk patrol or SWAT Operation. You will participate in numerous slow and deliberate tactical training scenarios. Teams will learn the latest K9 searching methods, deployment and arrest techniques

The goal of this 3 day course is to educate and train Patrol Officers, SWAT operators, specialty units and K9 handlers on the deployment of a police dog in a high risk tactical operation such as: tactical tracking, barricaded suspects, live gunfire, approaches, entries, blind corners, room clearing, hallways, stairs, attics, crawl spaces, vehicle assaults, arrest techniques and even in a gas environment.

SWAT, specialty units, patrol officers and supervisors are encouraged to attend but K9 handlers can attend solo.

Questions & Reservations

Contact: Brad Smith  TopDogWCK1@aol.com   626-523-4028

For more information and suggested equipment to bring.  https://k9tacops.com/

HOST: K9 Tactical Operations

Location
Jeffersonville Police Department
2218 E 10th St, Jeffersonville, IN 47130

S.K.I.D.D.S. / CATS, KATTS and T-MACC are a unique one-of-a-kind K9 tactical course that is designed to educate and train K9 handlers, SWAT teams, Specialty Units, Patrol Officers and Correction Officers and the Military on the deployment of police dogs in a high risk patrol or SWAT Operation. You will participate in numerous slow and deliberate tactical training scenarios. Teams will learn the latest K9 searching methods, deployment and arrest techniques

The goal of this 3 day course is to educate and train Patrol Officers, SWAT operators, specialty units and K9 handlers on the deployment of a police dog in a high risk tactical operation such as: tactical tracking, barricaded suspects, live gunfire, approaches, entries, blind corners, room clearing, hallways, stairs, attics, crawl spaces, vehicle assaults, arrest techniques and even in a gas environment.

SWAT, specialty units, patrol officers and supervisors are encouraged to attend but K9 handlers can attend solo.

Questions & Reservations

Contact: Brad Smith  TopDogWCK1@aol.com   626-523-4028

For more information and suggested equipment to bring.  https://k9tacops.com/

HOST  Plainfield Police Department

LOCATION
Plainfield Police Dept Annex
4004 Clarks Creek Rd
Plainfield, IN 46168

COST  $50 Minimum donation fee
Restricted to Law Enforcement teams.

TOPICS

• K9 FIRST AID – Kits for K9s
  • Free First Aid Kit – You receive a well-stocked field first aid kit.
  • Trauma Care – K9s get hurt in the line of duty, we give you information to stabilize them before transport.
  • Canine CPR – Yes, K9s can need CPR. Learn how to do it correctly. It’s different than for humans.
  • Preventive Care – Preventive care for your K9

• K9 TEAM TRAINING – Rob Prichard, PPD
  • Legal Baseline Class
  • Gear Irrelevancy Drills
  • Scenario-based training

Questions & Registration:
Rob Prichard rprichard@plainfieldpd.org
Registration deadline 2/16/2024

HOST: North Star International K9 Training Association

Location
Lakeview Ministries
13500 W Lake Road, Seymour IN 47274

Instructors: Click here for trainer bios

TIME: 8a-5p The camp cooks meals so training the training schedule
revolves around that. Our training day is usually 8 to 5 with lunch in the field. Fee includes: includes lodging in 4-bed cabin, all meals, full kitchen, & laundry

COST:
$435 Seminar
$ 75 Certification*
$260 Additional K9
$220 Audit
$   0  Waitlist 

Register for individual Seminar

• Wilderness Trailing
• Urban Trailing
• Land HRD (Human Remains Detection)
• Water HRD (Human Remains Detection)

CERTIFICATION

For Certification Standards click here 

Questions?
Contact: Michael Sarvich   sarvich@gmail.com

Location
Carmel City Hall
One Civic Square, Carmel, IN 46032

TIME: 8a-5p  (check-in opens at 7:45am)

This one day (8hr) seminar covers topics including police service patrol dog operations, narcotic-contraband detection dog operations and relevant case law related to the Supreme court of the United States, United States Court of appeals for the Seventh Circuit and the State of Indiana.

Any agency member is welcome to attend. Topics geared towards police service and working dog trainers, supervisors, and administrators. Handlers, trainers, and agency attorneys are also encouraged and welcome.

K9: Case Law
• Agency, Administrator, Supervisor & Trainer specific
• Canine Use of Force
• Canine Search & Seizure

K9 Industry Standards
• Certification
• Training
• Policy

COST:
$150/seat

CONTINUING EDUCATION
Officers who successfully complete this course will receive Law Enforcement Training Board continuing education credit of 16 hours.

Questions?
Contact: Jennifer@sheepdogguardian.com

Location
Carmel City Hall
One Civic Square, Carmel, IN 46032

TIME: 8a-5p  (check-in opens at 7:45am)

This two day (16hr) seminar covers topics including police service patrol dog operations, narcotic-contraband detection dog operations and relevant case law related to the Supreme court of the United States, United States Court of appeals for the Seventh Circuit and the State of Indiana.

K9: Use of Force and Search & Seizure Narcotic-contraband
• Supreme Court of the United States
• United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
• Indiana law

K9 Industry Standards
• Certification
• Indiana-specific
• Discipline-specific
• Training

COST:
$225/seat

CONTINUING EDUCATION
Officers who successfully complete this course will receive Law Enforcement Training Board continuing education credit of 16 hours.

Questions?
Contact: Jennifer@sheepdogguardian.com

Conference sessions include: 

• Tactical Canine Casualty Care TC3 (Veterinary Tactical Group)
• Handler Conditioning (Ashley Horner)
• E-Collar (Justin Rigney)
• Reality-Based Training – K9 Team
• Operational Optimization (Brad Gillespie Spectrum K9)
  Tracking Formations and Action on Contact (Brad Gillespie Spectrum K9) 2-day course
• Tactical Rappelling and Rope Access (REVAC USA) 2-day course
• The World of Muzzle (James O' Brien, NCK9, LLC)
• CQB Fundamentals (DCM Consulting)
• Detection "Working Fundamentals and Pushing the Limits" (Cameron Ford, Ford K9)
• Explosives Safety and Post Blast Search for Secondaries (Todd Wilber, Precision
  Explosives)
• Bitework Conditioning/Troubleshooting (Carlos Ramirez)
• Tactical Obedience and Conditioning (Antonio "AROD" Rodriguez, ORO K9 Services)
• Tactical Laser Directional Training (Chris Tucker North GA K9)
• Functional Patrol K9 Deployment from Patrol Vehicle (Jason Stanze Houston K9
  Academy)
• Team Movement with K9 (Bellator K9) 2-day course
• Tactical High-Risk Route Clearing (Nick Fontaine Kilo III Consulting)
• Increasing Hunt Drive and Expanding the Building Search (Todd Mona)
• Canine Legal Update: Supervisor and Trainer Liability (Mike Kmiecik Sheepdog Guardian Consulting)
• Canine Legal Update: Narcotic Contraband Detection Dog (Mike Kmiecik Sheepdog
  Guardian Consulting)
• Canine Legal Update: Patrol Dog Liability (Mike Kmiecik Sheepdog Guardian Consulting)

Meet your instructors:  https://atk9.org/2023-conference

TRAINING  Street Cop Training

HOST  Bartholomew County Sheriff’s Office

LOCATION
Columbus Learning Center
4555 Central Avenue, Columbus, IN 47203

COST  $225

TOPICS

• Understand how police K9s think, learn, and behave
• Become fluent as a backup officer for a K9 team
• Understand odor, how it moves, and how the environment affects it
• Be prepared for concealment techniques and masking odors
• Master narcotic sniffs and patrol deployments
• Improve tracking, trailing, and area searches
• Effective ways to contain, locate, and apprehend suspects
• How to Properly utilize a K9 during high-risk deployments
• Gain awareness of heat injuries and K9 first aid
• Understand K9-specific case law, preparing for court, and record keeping
• Prevent handler, supervisor, and department liability
• Real deployment videos will be shown to explain how suspects were located and narcotics were seized.

You will leave confident in your ability to handle, train supervise, and assist a K9

Questions & Reservations
https://www.streetcoptraining.com/

HOST CIK9 with Dustoff K9

LOCATION
Whitestown Police Department
6208 Veterans Dr, Whitestown IN 46075

INSTRUCTORS
Dustoff K9, Brady Smith/Director-Lead Instructor, Retired Army Special Forces Medic/K9 Handler with 14 yrs experience

COST  $450 per working K9 team.  Limited to 20 teams.  
$100 audit spots – unlimited

This will be a 2-day seminar focusing on operational and field veterinary medicine, empowering handlers to stabilize their K9 at the point of injury and ready them for rapid transport and effective handoff to formal veterinary care.

Course topics to include: K9 point of injury medicine (includes different types of trauma, airway, chest wounds, burns, hypothermia), opioid exposure, eat injuries, gastric dilatation volvulus.

This seminar will include classroom instruction
as well as hands-on practicums using K9 manikins with basic scenarios on the first day and the more difficult scenarios on day 2.

Questions & Reservations
• For registration questions email Carol Battistini – Treasurer at acctg@cik9.org
• For training or general inquires contact Kyle Schaefer at 317-353-7852 or training@cik9.org

This year we are going back to school as TSA Indianapolis will host its 7th Annual Multi-Agency K9 Training Event in partnership with the Central Indiana K9 Association. This event is open to all Federal, State, and Local K9 Teams. K9 Handlers are encouraged to invite their agency’s trainers and command staff to attend so that they may provide individual feedback to their teams.

There will be trainers representing all disciplines from the public and private sectors running multiple training scenarios throughout the day. Any agency trainer that would like to assist or even run a scenario of their own design is encouraged to include info with their RSVP.

Handlers are advised to bring with them any specialized gear required for their discipline.

2nd DAY for Explosive Teams
May 31, 2023: second day of training in partnership with the FBI to include Intro to Improvised Explosives Presentation, Explosives Range Demonstration, and Bomb Threat Search Presentation (2nd day open to government entities only)

HOST: K9 Tactical Operations

Location
Evansville Police Department
15 NW Martin Luther King Jr Blvd, Evansville, IN 47708

Day 1  CK Community Center
100 E. Walnut Street Evansville Indiana

S.K.I.D.D.S. / CATS, KATTS and T-MACC are a unique one-of-a-kind K9 tactical course that is designed to educate and train K9 handlers, SWAT teams, Specialty Units, Patrol Officers and Correction Officers and the Military on the deployment of police dogs in a high risk patrol or SWAT Operation. You will participate in numerous slow and deliberate tactical training scenarios. Teams will learn the latest K9 searching methods, deployment and arrest techniques

The goal of this 3 day course is to educate and train Patrol Officers, SWAT operators, specialty units and K9 handlers on the deployment of a police dog in a high risk tactical operation such as: tactical tracking, barricaded suspects, live gunfire, approaches, entries, blind corners, room clearing, hallways, stairs, attics, crawl spaces, vehicle assaults, arrest techniques and even in a gas environment.

Questions & Reservations

Contact: Brad Smith  TopDogWCK1@aol.com   626-523-4028

Please click HERE for event flyer.

For more information and suggested equipment to bring.  https://k9tacops.com/

Location
Hosted by the Hendricks County Sheriff’s Office
Camp Camby, 10740 E CR 700 S,  Camby, IN 46113

TIME: 2p-9p (lunch will be provided)

COST:
$100 Working spot – Includes event T-shirt! SOLD OUT
–REGISTRATION LIMITED TO 15 working teams.  
$50 Audit spots (unlimited)

This training is open to Military/Law enforcement only.

Instructor: Eric Stanbro, VanEss K9 Academy

Eric worked as a K9 handler and trainer from 2005-2018, recently retired as the head trainer from Canton Police Department K9 Unit, along with the Police K9 Association. Eric spent time as a trainer for Naval Special Warfare Group 1 (SEALs) training, America’s elite Multi-Purpose Working Dogs. He is also the co-host of Working Dog Radio podcast, where he interviews trainers and handlers from all over the world.

Instruction:

•  Teaching how to start over and undo poor e-collar practices
• Learn how to use the e-collar as a gas pedal as well as a brake.
• How to use the e-collar to remove conflict between you and your working dog.
• Cleaning up your “out” within high stim corrections

https://www.vanessk9.com/
https://www.workingdogradio.com/

Location
Hosted by the Hendricks County Sheriff’s Office
Camp Camby, 10740 E CR 700 S,  Camby, IN 46113

Instructors: Travis Lax, Stoic K9, LLC

TIME: 2p-9p (lunch will be provided)

COST:
$100 Working spot – Includes event T-shirt!
–REGISTRATION LIMITED TO 10 working teams.  SOLD OUT
$50 Audit spots (unlimited)

Travis served 11 years in the Army as an Infantryman, mostly in Infantry Battalion Reconnaissance units. Being active duty military, he moved around quite a bit and have had the opportunity to find dog sport clubs to train with, and learn from across the nation.

Travis expanded his experience and knowledge to the odor side of working dogs by getting involved in Search and Rescue and handling a Cadaver dog, and have trained trailing dogs within the state that are used in SAR. He has also imprinted and handled a Belgian Shepherd detecting bed bugs, and worked for a local company searching hotels.

In 2019 Travis certified as a Patrol K9 decoy through Tulsa Police Departments’ decoy seminar. He returned to Oklahoma at the beginning of 2020 and successfully completed an 800 hour dog trainer course through Canine Unlimited of Tulsa, Inc. Travis now works at the same business that he trained under to continue honing his craft, as well as train and supply the finest Police Service Dog’s in the country.

This training is open to Military/Law enforcement only.

Some of the topics that will be covered are:

Training and scenario philosophy
Nerve Classification
Environmental Neutrality
Drive Channeling
Grip and Out Development
Skills for Decoy and K9

This event is open to all Federal, State and Local K9 Teams. K9 Handlers are encouraged to invite their agency’s trainers and command staff to attend so that they may provide individual feedback to their teams. There will be trainers representing all disciplines from the public and private sectors running multiple training scenarios throughout the day.

Any agency trainers who would like to assist or even run a scenario of their own design are encouraged to include that info when they RSVP. Handlers are advised to bring with them any specialized gear required for their particular discipline.

• For additional information please contact TSA Trainer Eric Hood at 317-665-0180.

• Please RSVP with agency name, handler name, and K9 specialty to
Keith.M.Gray@tsa.dhs.gov by 10/16. Participation will be limited to the first 100 teams to register.

This two-day (16hr) seminar covers topics including police service patrol dog operations, narcotic-contraband detection dog operations, and relevant case law related to the Supreme court of the United States, United States Court of appeals for the Seventh Circuit, and the State of Indiana.

Any agency member is welcome to attend—topics geared towards police service and working dog handlers and trainers of patrol and narcotic-contraband detection dogs.  Agency attorneys, prosecutors, supervisors, and administrators are also encouraged and welcome.

Officers who successfully complete this course will receive Law Enforcement Training Board CE credit of 16 hours. 

K9: Use of Force and Search & Seizure Narcotic-contraband

• • • Supreme Court of the United States
    • United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
    • Indiana Law

 K9 Industry Standards

• • • Certification
    • Indiana – specific
    • Discipline – specific
    • Training

MT-3-day Event – Limited Spots – Problem Solving Every Day

•  Bulk Narcotics
• Bulk Explosives
• Tactical simunition training
• Scenario based training
• Practical Tracking with John Ivey
• Night Tracks / Traffic Stops
• Current Blasting Technology and Explosives with Austin Powder
• Lecture on the Odor of Explosives with John V Goodpastor, PhD
• Odor Print Training Aids with Precision Explosives
• EOD Scenarios with Cpl Michael Sarchet
• K9 Nutritional Seminar with Kinetic Feed
• Introduction to muzzle
• Directional Search / Tactical Obedience
• And much, much more!

CIK9 will be at the event on Wednesday.  Stop by and say hello, and let the team know that you learned about the event here!

https://www.atf.gov/explosives/national-odor-recognition-test

You can find great images from this event on our FB and IG pages!  Be sure to like and follow to stay in the loop!

Location
Plainfield PD Annex, 4004 Clarks Creek Rd., Plainfield IN 46168

Instructors: Howard Young – White Beard K9

TIME: 2p-9p (lunch will be provided)

COST: $100 (working spot) ** REGISTRATION LIMITED TO 30 working teams.  $50 Audit spots (unlimited)

This course will cover everything from selection to tailoring your dog’s training to best meet the high demands placed on law enforcement K9 teams. Every handler has specific strengths and weaknesses, as do their K9 partners.  The course includes discussions regarding a variety of training arrangements and exercises to enhance your dog’s working ability.

Hard work and sustained effort are essential ingredients but are fruitless if training is poorly designed or not practiced to fidelity.  

This course takes a deeper look into what makes some teams more successful than others and aims to identify those elements and provide practical training recommendations for the dual-purpose K9.

This training is open to Military/Law enforcement only.  

ABOUT THE TRAINER

Howard is a civilian police K9 trainer located in Shelby NC. From a young age, he had a passion for working dogs, along with a hunger to learn.  This passion put him on a path to assist with training police and protection dogs with an acquaintance at the Shelby NC Police Department.  

He was offered a job to be a civilian police K9 trainer and for over 25 years, he has been employed to oversee the procurement, development, and training of the Shelby Police Department’s K9 teams. He has since contracted with the Cleveland County Sheriff’s Office to oversee the training there, as well.

Location
Hosted by the Hendricks County Sheriff’s Office
BPD Training Facility, 75 Whittington Dr, Brownsburg, IN 46112

Instructors: Steve “Zane” Stoops, Zane K9 Dynamics

TIME: 2p-9p (lunch will be provided)

COST: $100 (working spot) ** REGISTRATION LIMITED TO 30 working teams.  $50 Audit spots (unlimited)

This K9 Workshop on K9 Intensification will be a 3-day working workshop consisting of:

• an explanation on K9 Intensification
• evaluation of K9s for a confrontation without bite gear
• development of confrontation.

Other areas included are

• principles of E-collar
• obedience vs. delivery systems
• indiscriminate biting vs equipment sucking
• the role of relationship in control
• tactical considerations and realities

Finishing up with aggregate training of Zane’s principles and philosophies.

This training is open to Military/Law enforcement only.

Location
Hosted by the Brownsburg Police Department
BPD Training Facility, 75 Whittington Dr, Brownsburg, IN 46112

Instructors: Jim Hagerty, AFT SRT K9 Trainer

TIME: 2p-9p (lunch will be provided)

COST: $FREE!  (working spot) ** REGISTRATION LIMITED TO 30 working teams

This K9 Workshop is an orientation and introduction to K9 Behavior Conditioning as well as Tabletop Aggression techniques and practices.

This is a working workshop with all K9 Teams working on the following tasks: table agitation, table civil, drive capping, back-tie, self-outs, long line, e-collar, tone downs, comms on K9, directional with laser and whistle recall.

These techniques will provide training tools and approaches that allow for capturing and channeling K9 behavior in an effective manner.

This training is open to Military/Law enforcement only.  Working teams – please bring a Bite Suit and be prepared to DECOY.  Unlimited audit spots.  

Location
Hosted by the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department K9 Unit,
3345 W Vermont St, Indianapolis, IN 46222

Instructors: Randy Hare / Alpha K9 – randyhare.com or alphak9.com

TIME: 10a-5p (lunch will be provided)

COST: $50.00 (working spot) ** REGISTRATION LIMITED TO 35 ATTENDEES

We at CIK9 are excited to announce our 2nd training event of 2021, Jul 8, 9, 10, co-hosted by the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department K9 Unit and instructed by Randy Hare, Alpha K9 founder and international dog trainer.

Common Scents – “On Target Method” is an orientation and introduction (or refresher to those that have attended in past) to Randy’s On Target detection training system. This course is designed to give the attendee an excellent insight into this training method. This course will review the techniques of Randy’s “On Target Method” and learn how it differs from the traditional methods of detection training.

Techniques learned will show how the K9s learn for themselves, that their eyes and ears mean nothing when it comes to earning the reward object. Training this way eliminates 95% of the cues that may cause false indications.

Location
Hendricks County 4-H Fairgrounds & Conference Complex 1900 E Main St, Danville, IN 46122

Instructors: Ray Murphy, Ted Summers, Eric Stanbro

COST: $500 Working Spot | $225 Audit Spot

This will be an intense working seminar to help police K-9 learn proper mechanics of bite work development. Decoys must come with a dog that is solid on proper bite mechanics. Please bring a comp or semi-comp bite suit that fits properly.

Meals will be provided on-site (drinks, snacks, lunch, and dinner.)