In this episode, Jerry Bradshaw discuss:

• Targeting for police dogs, in training and in deployment.
• Verbal outs verses other types of outs for police dogs, positives and negatives to the different types of outs.
• You should train and certify using the same equipment they would have in a deployment.
• Proofing a police dog for the streets.

Key Takeaways:

• Teach primary and secondary target areas for biting.
• Choice paralysis tends to come when dogs don’t have the muscle memory of targeting and they have too many decisions to make.
• Understand proper technique to remove the dog in a bite situation.
• Patrol is the one thing that we cannot practice before the first real bite happens.
• Repetition is key. You want to train in and create the habits in the dogs.