Dog Handling Training - Milites Dei Academy

Dog Handling Training is the act of teaching a dog particular skills and/or behaviours. Dog training includes teaching a dog to react to particular commands and cues as well as to act independently by deliberately changing their natural behaviour. For some this might seem like an enormously difficult task and for some a well-trained dog almost seems like a special miracle.

Dog Handling Training

The collaboration between Tackle Hoff K9 and Milites Dei Academy will teach you this special skill. Dogs for security and tracking are major specialised fields not only in South Africa but also in the rest of the world. The Unit Standards on offer by Tackle Hof K9 and Milites Dei Academy are:

DH 1 – Care for a service dog US 243188
DH 2 – Handle a trained service dog US 243190
DH 3 – Supervise kennel practices US 243196
DH 4 – Handle a patrol dog to assist in the apprehension of a suspect US 120463
DH 5 – Handle a trained sniffer and dogs US 120461 and US 120456

Orsolya Horváth explains that ‘Since the human recognized the perfect smell of dogs, they used it for acquiring advantages. In the ancient Roman time, they were used for hunting and security. Besides the hunting tasks, dogs were trained for police work in the 20th century, therefore the English used dogs with the case of Jack the Ripper in 1888. The using practice was soon adapted elsewhere by the law enforcement. The fields of tracking broaden with other special tasks, such as the using of trailing method, and searching special materials in the last century. With the globalization and the appearance of special social problem which encountered with new crimes(e.g. drug imports,bomb outrage), the necessity bring the latest type of police dogs into being. Nowadays, we are not surprised at the airport when sniffer dogs search baggage, or work on smuggling cases. Not only are they used in crime detection but are also applied in crime prevention’. [Read more on https://www.researchgate.net/publication/281096140_Police_dogs_-_servicing_the_security].

PSIRA writes: ‘…a security dog can effectively replace up to three static security officers, the argument is that dogs are not only more of a deterrent but cost effective too. Dogs have an incredible sense of hearing and a powerful sense of smell which enables them to detect disturbances from a far distance, well before any person or high tech alarm system’. [Read more on https://www.psira.co.za/dmdocuments/research/Canine_Protection-Dogs%20and_Dog-Handlers_31March2015.pdf]

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