Police/Sport Tracking Seminar in New Jersey

[Tom Conroy]

Police K-9 Tracking Seminar
With special emphasis on Urban Tracking
Conducted on the beautiful campus of The Richard Stockton College
101 Vera King Farris Drive Galloway, New Jersey 08205
December 17th, 18th, and 19th 2012/ Start time is 9:00 am at the Lakeside Lodge
Cost: $150. Payable to Law Enforcement Training Services
169 Lehigh Ave Manahawkin, New Jersey 08050
For Additional Information contact Retired Chief Thomas Conroy at 609-548-8543 or k9roady@aol.com
Urban Tracking Seminar
Instructed by Mr. Frank Campbell

• This class is a three day hands on seminar which gives the experienced or novice handler the tools to increase the effectiveness of your k9 on the street. With classroom A-Z on olfactory capabilities, operant conditioning, dog selection, and step by step procedures on how to train a "green" dog from scratch or improve your street dog. We will show you how to motivate and reward your dog for putting his nose down on hard and soft surfaces. Handling techniques including leash handling, reading your dog and working out urban intersections. With 30 years of tracking experience in Florida ‘s most densely populated county, you will be exposed to tried and true methods of training to have a productive k9 team in an urban, contaminated environment. (not all dogs will be able to excel in this class without proper hunt drive and environmental exposure)





About the Instructor :

Frank Campbell has been working with police dogs since 1978 where he began as a dual purpose handler in the U.S. Army at Ft. Bragg, NC (118 MP co. Abn.). As a handler since 1984 with Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office, he served as an explosive dog, patrol dog, narcotic dog handler, as well as a SWAT member and unit K-9 trainer for a 13 dog unit. He spent eight years in narcotics working with DEA interdiction task force with single purpose drug dogs. Retired in 2007, he worked as the K-9 trainer for the City of St. Petersburg’s 12 dog K-9 unit until November 2010. Now working part time, he is lecturing and instructing at various conferences and seminars. Frank has been involved in training local, national, and international seminars since 1988 in topics ranging from protection to detection and interdiction operations. His resume includes teaching at NNDDA national seminar, USPCA national training seminars, Idaho and Washington State Police K-9 Seminars as well as Law Dog and Hits. He has conducted seminars with PSDK-9, Muddy Boots Tactical, Southerncoast K-9 and is a partner/instructor with TK9O training. Frank is known for his motivational “attention to detail” training lectures, and is a level 2 trainer, Florida instructor/evaluator and national detector dog judge; a present or past member of NAPWDA, USPCA, DVG, NNDA and NARA. Acknowledged and published in magazine articles and books in K-9 training and interdiction operations, he also is the lead instructor and founder of the K-9 operations class at MCTFT which has conducted seminars nationwide since 1994. In addition, he instructs the K9 Instructors Course at St. Petersburg College .