Classroom training for dog handlers, with a Malinois lying at the trainer's feet.

06 · Training

Training the handlers

A trained dog needs a trained handler. Public units, security companies, dog handlers: we prepare each handler to work with their dog, keep it fit for duty and intervene safely.

Four courses

Programmes adapted to the level of your teams and to the dog's field of deployment, in public service and private security alike. When a unit is equipped, handlers are trained as a group, with their dogs, so the unit enters service together.

New handlers, all fields

Initial dog handler training

The fundamentals of working with an intervention, detection, tracking or search dog.

  • Canine behaviour and reading the dog
  • Handling, control and skills maintenance
  • Conflict management before deploying the dog
  • Exercises specific to the field of deployment
  • Welfare, hygiene and housing of the dog

Serving handlers

Refresher training

Regular upgrading of handler and dog teams, and on-site trainer development to maintain skills between visits.

  • Assessment of the handler and dog team
  • Correction of deviations
  • Update of exercises or odours
  • On-site trainer development, including the decoy

Handlers and field teams

Canine emergency care

What to do while waiting for a veterinarian.

  • Assessing the dog's condition
  • Wounds, bleeding and immobilisation
  • Heatstroke and exhaustion
  • Canine first aid kit

All dog handlers

Conflict management

Before deploying the dog: keeping control of the situation and of the dog when facing a hostile person.

  • Reading the situation and distances
  • Communication and de-escalation
  • Deployment of the dog as a last resort, proportionate

Training

What we do

Our courses are preparation for working with the dog. They do not confer a professional qualification: where a qualification or certification is required in your country, we can support the preparation of your agents.

Field training: a trainee leads a German Shepherd along a vehicle, guided by her instructor.
Canine first aid training: a trainee wraps a bandage around the foreleg of a Malinois lying down, held calmly by an instructor, with the first aid kit open beside them.
Train your teams Unit, department or security company: tell us the number of agents, their level and their field, and we will propose a programme. Contact us