Brief History of Police dog training by handlers

Brief History of Police dog training by handlers

Brief History of Police dog

Police dog handlers are career that involving in training police dogs or canines. We all know that animals can be trained and taught new skills such as to play games, drawing, standing up, and many more. Animals or pets are like young children sometimes. They can be taught through repetition and anticipation. Plus, they can earn respect and recognition just like police dogs.

During the mid of 1800s, canines begin working in law enforcement. Dogs were chosen to be trained for protection in night shift. The training began in Germany and Belgium. Canines were assigned to guard duty because of their intelligence and a strong sense of smell. As there are many dog breeds, several breeds were to tested out their abilities and sensing skills. It wasn’t necessary to choose the dogs that were strong and aggressive because mostly canines were needed only their intelligence and a strong sense of smell which human lack. And then Europe started seeing the capabilities and abilities of the dogs and began to teach them to work in law enforcement as well. It was not until 1069-70 that canines were recognized and used in the U.S.

All canines were trained some basic obedience classes by trainers or police dog handlers. They must obey the trainers and keep aggressive under control. Trained K9s have been given the tasks to look for missing objects or individuals, sniffing out bombs, detecting causes of fires, searching for drugs and more. K9s were doing their jobs in the effective results. Some even found dead bodies. Each dog has different capabilities such as some breeds are good at sensing and smelling while others are good at protecting or attacking in the aggressive way. K9s are used to detect live persons that are lost, trapped in the buildings. Especially in natural disasters, K9s can be very useful for the dangerous situation in helping out people.

Nowadays, K9s are used by law enforcement in most major U.S cities and throughout the world. Police dog handlers are to train the K9s and guide them during the training until they’re able to perform the given tasks. Even though one is a dog and one is human being, the pair needs to respect one another and will work together until one of them retires or dies. When assigning the tasks especially the dangerous and risky ones, there are high chances that K9s may be injured or dead but we all know that they are trained to be loyal and they can fight or defend their partners until they die. If K9s or police dogs are intentional killed in the line of duty, a funeral will be held just like humans for showing respect and recognition to them.

To be police dog handlers are not easy. It is truly an exciting and challenging career. When each trainer and dog develops the bond, sometimes it is hard to see the other got hurt or injured. This is why becoming an effective handler needs to be able to separate personal feelings and responsibilities otherwise he/she won’t be able to perform the job well enough.