How and When to Request K9 Assistance
We provide trained K9 teams to assist law enforcement, fire departments, emergency management, and other public safety agencies in locating missing persons. Call as soon as possible. If a search may benefit from a K9 team, contact us right away—even if you are still gathering information or determining your search plan.
Our services are always free of charge to the requesting agency.
When We Can Assist:
- Missing children
- Missing or endangered adults
- Missing elderly or cognitively impaired individuals
- Wilderness searches
- Evidence searches
- Urban/suburban searches
- Disaster response
- Water recovery
- Land searches
- Human remains detection
- Tracking/trailing
- Other search operations
What You Can Expect:
- Trained K9/handler teams
- Professional incident coordination
- Search reports and maps following all deployments
Important:
K-9 capabilities vary by individual team. When requesting assistance, provide as much information as possible about the incident and search environment so we can determine which K-9 resource is best suited to assist.
Our K9 Capabilities:
- Human Remains Detection
- Teams trained to detection human decomposition and locate human remains. Handlers follow established procedures to document and report K-9 indications and findings.
- Water Recovery
- Teams trained to work from boats and locate submerged human remains.
- Tracking/Trailing
- Teams trained to follow human scent to determine direction and route taken by missing persons. Trained to work in a variety of environments including residential areas, roadways, fields, wooded areas, parks, and trails.
- TRACKING/TRAILINGS DOGS ARE MOST USEFUL WITHIN THE FIRST 72 HOURS OF A DISAPPEARANCE.
- Area Search
- Teams trained to locate human scent in a search area using air currents. Capable of covering large areas that would otherwise require significant personnel and time.
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