Inside: Articles from HITS 2015 Instructors: Narcotics Dog Case Law Update - Ted Daus A Look at PackTrack 5 Reasons SWAT & K-9 Do Not Work Well Together - Jeff Barrett
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Case Law Update
by Ted Daus
The Latest Case from the United States Supreme Court Regarding the Use of Narcotics K-9's During Vehicle Stops The Supreme Court on Tuesday April 21, 2015, by a 6-3 vote, ruled that the police may not prolong a traffic stop to wait for a drug-sniffing dog to inspect a vehicle in the case of Rodriguez v. U.S. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg authored the opinion for the high court. Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., Justices Antonin Scalia, Stephen G. Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan joined Justice Ginsburg’s majority opinion. “A police stop exceeding the time needed to handle the matter for which the stop was made (in this case the warning citation) violates the Constitution’s shield against unreasonable seizures,” Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg wrote for the majority. This should sound very familiar to most police dog handlers because it is the standard dog deployment procedure that is currently followed around the United States. I do not mean to be so blunt but the court’s opinion does nothing but confirm the status quo of the law for handlers all across the country related to the duration and use of a dog at a traffic stop.
The case started when a Nebraska police K-9 officer, for the Valley Police Department, saw a Mercury Mountaineer driven by defendant Rodriguez veer onto the shoulder of the highway just after midnight. K-9 officer Struble performed a routine traffic stop, questioning Mr. Rodriguez and his passenger and running a records check. He then issued Mr. Rodriguez a written warning but could not run is narcotics canine safely around the SUV because he was the only officer on scene. His back-up officer, which was called for late in the stop, had not arrived yet. His back-up did arrive but only 7-8 minutes after the warning ticket was completed.
After the second officer arrives on scene 7-8 minutes later, Officer Struble then had his drug-sniffing dog, Floyd, circle the vehicle. Floyd smelled the odor of drugs and led the officer to a large bag of methamphetamine. Mr. Rodriguez moved to suppress the evidence. Justice Ginsburg, who dissented in the 2005 case, Illinois v. Caballes, said that decision had merely “tolerated certain unrelated investigations that did not lengthen the roadside detention.” “An officer, in other words, may conduct certain unrelated checks during an otherwise lawful traffic stop,” she wrote. But, she added, “He may not do so in a way that prolongs the stop, absent the reasonable suspicion ordinarily demanded to justify detaining an individual.” This has been the law in vast majority of jurisdictions for a long while.
Thomas, in his dissent, articulated that in his opinion reasonable suspicion existed. Therefore, Mr. Rodriguez may have won the battle but still may lose the war because the Eight Circuit is free to agree with Justice Thomas and still affirm the conviction. Justices Thomas and Alito also said that there was no reason to have further proceedings about whether Officer Struble had a reasonable suspicion that justified using Floyd, as they said he had ample reason to be suspicious. There was, they said, an overwhelming odor of air freshener in the vehicle. The reasons Mr. Rodriguez offered for veering onto the shoulder and for his trip were open to question along with the passenger appearing to be nervous. “These facts, taken together, easily met our standard for reasonable suspicion,” Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg wrote for the majority Justice Thomas wrote.
“A police stop exceeding the time needed to handle the matter for which the stop was made (in this case the warning citation) violates the Constitution’s shield against unreasonable seizures.”
This ruling really was taking a shot at extending the “After the ticket is finished, the driver is free to go” style Rule in order to provide the officer on the street a little extra cushion of time for the dogs arrival but the Supreme Court did not allow any extension of time.
The majority sent the case back to the Eight Circuit Court of Appeals for a determination of whether that reasonable suspicion existed. The Eight Circuit did not decide the case on a reasonable suspicion standard. They only considered the dog deployment issue. Justice
Justice Clarence Thomas also dissented on other grounds, noting the majority had drawn artificial and unworkable distinctions. He was joined by Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. and, in part, by Justice Anthony M. Kennedy. “If a driver is stopped by a particularly efficient officer,” Justice Thomas wrote, “then he will be entitled to be released from the traffic stop after a shorter period of time than a driver stopped by a less efficient officer. Similarly, if a driver is stopped by an officer with access
to technology that can shorten a records check, then he will be entitled to be released from the stop after a shorter period of time than an individual stopped by an officer without access to such technology.” In a separate dissent, Justice Alito added that much will now turn on the order in which police officers complete their tasks during traffic stops. Issuing a ticket or warning, he said, will now become the last step. “Most officers will learn the prescribed sequence of events even if they cannot fathom the reason for that requirement,” he wrote. He added, “I would love to be the proverbial fly on the wall when police instructors teach this rule to officers who make traffic stops.” Little did Justice Alito realize that this methodology is the procedure that has been currently taught and lectured on for many years. As stated above, the ruling in this case does nothing to change what police K-9 handlers are doing all over the country. The case does help out law enforcement in one major factor; TIME! The Supreme Court had no problem with the reasonableness of this stop that lasted
just over 20 minutes. They merely had a problem with the extra 7-8 minutes that extend the stop in question. In examining this key fact, the high court seemed to be fine with the stop, conversation the transpired, the records check (of both driver & passenger) and the issuance of the warning ticket which of all completed in a reasonable time frame of just over 20 minutes. Just do not extend the time do these procedures past that reasonable time frame to accomplish the goal of the stop, which is the ticket. The Supreme Court of the United States seems to be fine with the ballpark time frame of 20 minutes to accomplish that task. Thus, the Rodriguez case changes very little or it could be seen as changing nothing for today’s K9 handler. The sky is not falling because we lost this case. Everything is Status Quo!
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SWAT & K-9 Have Trouble Working Together by Jeff Barrett
Reason #1 Fear of Being Bitten There are many SWAT operators who have an abysmal fear of dogs in general but specifically, a police dog that is trained to bite. Dogs have the ability to sense fear in humans. It can be seen through our reactions when we are frightened. Our bodies relay the messages of fear very clearly to dogs, especially an experienced police dog. Fear shows itself through our posture when we are standoffish, our voice when we uncontrollably utter squeals or yell and it’s even detectable in the way we smell when we panic or get scared. For operators who cannot overcome this fear, working alongside a police dog as part of any search team, the added distraction is a deal breaker.
Reason #2 SWAT Leaders Fail to See the Value of the K-9 as a SWAT Tool
Reason #3 Somebody is Always Wanting to Move Too Fast
K-9 handlers and trainers know that not every police dog will make a great SWAT dog. Some SWAT leaders will reflect on past failures either within their own ranks or stories from others to make their point about dogs and SWAT being like oil and water. Today’s quality stock of police dogs are not your father’s donated German Shepherd that was a backyard pet until the kids stopped playing with him and the novelty wore off. The training is certainly far more advanced in the field than it was even 10 years ago. This generation of operators, dog teams and training is slowly melding in a more cohesive relationship that actually makes the job safer.
SWAT and K-9 don’t make for a great pairing when it comes to dynamic entries. Putting a police dog into that type of rapid paced operation can be very problematic. Operators will be moving quickly, verbalizing back and forth to one another and yelling commands toward potential threats inside the structure and oftentimes going hands-on with a few of them. All of this activity can be overwhelming for the K-9, especially in tight quarters. In operations where dynamic entries will be the preferred route of execution for clearing, the K-9 team might be more of a benefit as a containment unit on the inner perimeter. After all, the primary purpose of using a police dog as a SWAT tool is to locate threats by using their keen sense of smell and hearing. Dynamic entries are predicated on speed and the element of surprise coupled with the element of overwhelming force. Dynamic entries eliminate the true value that the dog would bring to the team as an early warning search tool.
Reason #4 Somebody is Still Wanting to Move Too Fast K-9 handlers are always wanting to track or do area searches (on-lead) at pace far too fast for SWAT operators. K-9 handlers will argue that if they slow their dog down while tracking, the dog loses interest or loses the track odors, thus rendering them unsuccessful at finding the suspect. SWAT operators counter that going so fast puts them at greater risk of an ambush or passing the suspect up. The reality of this is that both arguments have merit. However, K-9 handlers can modify their dog’s tracking speed through proper training and the results can be a comfortable working pace for SWAT. SWAT operators are correct that going too fast can get you ambushed quicker. Training together is the one sure way to strike a balance and build a team operation.
Reason #5 The Units Do Not Train Together Enough The risk of failed missions are at a premium when these two units are thrust together on a mission, having little to no prior training as a team. K-9 handlers like to be a part of all the high risk incidents and they believe that what they bring to the operation is unequivocally valuable. The issues aren’t about the significance or the value that a K-9 team can play during a high risk mission, it’s about command and control over how the deployment proceeds. While high risk operations could benefit from a well-trained police dog, it is the well trained joint effort that is successful. Too often, K-9 handlers believe that they are in charge whenever they’re called upon to perform a specific task. What K-9 handlers fail to recognize is that their task is narrowly defined and specific to bringing SWAT operators to where the suspect is hiding. K-9 handlers mistakenly assume the role of taking the suspect into custody by using the dog. In most high risk operations, the SWAT operators will assume that task once the suspect’s hiding location has been discovered by K-9. Most high risk operations should be considered a SWAT call and K-9 is there to assist them in getting the operators to where they need to be in order to address the threat. I’ve seen and worked with hundreds of K-9 and SWAT teams in training. Both units want to better understand how the other works and then how to best proceed in bringing them together for a safer and more productive search team. What I’ve come to learn is that there are definable elements that have to be in place and none of them can be compromised or dismissed without seeing the degradation of the team’s performance.
A K-9 handler that doesn’t understand the methods in which their SWAT team works will compromise the operation. The only way to resolve this is to have the K-9 handler train with the team. K-9 Handlers who learn SWAT tactics will have a clearer understanding of how he can move forward with his K9 training. A SWAT team that doesn’t understand the capabilities and limitations of the specific dogs and handlers that will work with them are taking huge risks. Notice that I didn’t generalize here and say “K-9 team”. Each dog and handler is different. Both SWAT and K-9 will come to learn which dogs and which handlers will best fit the mission at hand. Some dogs simply don’t have what it takes for some missions and the same goes for the handlers. On a very personal level, everyone involved in this type of training must put aside their ego and be honest about their own level of competency. If you’re afraid of dogs, don’t try to overcome the fear and end up putting yourself and others at risk of death or injury when you freak out and do something out of fear that is inconsistent with the team’s discipline. Some dogs are more comfortable than others when working with a search team, in tight quarters or unstable environments such as stairwells and attics. Know these things before the deployment. Learn what works by training for it, not by experiencing failure in the real world. The level of consistent and frequent training will almost always determine your level of success. By consistent and frequent training, I mean, the training techniques are fundamentally sound in their effectiveness and tactical functionality and the training occurs frequently enough with the K-9 and with the SWAT team that the group can tactically function on an acceptable level. K9 training with the SWAT team once a quarter is not enough.
Experienced K-9 Handlers making the job easier and faster for everyone... After having worked together for many years on different K-9 training projects, Jeff Barrett and Andrew Weiman began working on their most challenging project to date, “PACKTRACK”. What started with the simplest of ideas, to make daily training better, faster, and easier for K-9 handlers, has burst forward to the cutting edge in K-9 recordkeeping technology for America’s Law Enforcement canines. Having over 50 years of working and training experience with police dogs between them, Jeff and Andy knew exactly what was needed in today’s K-9 world when it came to recordkeeping. With their combined experiences in K-9, PACKTRACK sprang to life. PACKTRACK is not a K-9 unit management system. Such systems require huge amounts of data input by handlers. PACKTRACK is a K-9 recordkeeping system. The concept is to solicit handlers to input data that is of substantial value to their training and to their reliability as a team and as a unit. Streamlining the work load is one of the benefits to using PACKTRACK. When a group of K-9 handlers get together for training, the basic information about that training event and the exercises is shared with the entire group by one person who enters the data. The rest of the members of the group simply record their individual performances after they’ve participated in the training. It’s just that simple!
lyze the monthly data and make informed decisions on next month’s training or where most of your deployments are being made within your jurisdiction? PACKTRACK collects data that helps you better understand what’s happening in training and on the streets. Do you ever struggle to figure out what you’re going to setup for training? PackTrack analyzes the deployment and training data and can make suggestions to make each training exercises prove your K9’s reliability.
PackTrack SecurityPackTrack takes physical, electronic, and procedural measures to protect personal information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure while it is under our control. PackTrack uses Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology for mutual authentication, data encryption and data integrity. PackTrack is hosted and secured on the Enterprise grade hosting platform. This high availability and secure platform gives the PackTrack software a hosting infrastructure that follows certifications and accreditations. ● SOC 1/SSAE 16/ISAE 3402 ● FISMA Moderate ● PCI DSS Level 1 ● ISO 27001 ● International Traffic in Arms • FIPS 140-2 PackTrack conducts a daily security vulnerability scanning of key network resources, to identify potential security holes. Security vulnerability scanning is conducted by Mcafee.
PackTrack is so advanced that Star “Smartphone technology” Trek would be impressed… everything you need right in From handwritten logs in a notebook, to spreadsheets the palm of your hand. and gridlines, PACKTRACK is light years ahead of anything else in the industry. Can you remember having to add up your monthly statistical data for your supervisor? Supervisors, are you constantly reminding the handlers to get their logs turned in on time only to spend countless hours transcribing them to one consolidated sheet? What do all those numbers mean anyway? Who looks at them and who uses them for a meaningful purpose? Probably no one! Do you ana-
PACKTRACK goes beyond the computer with its fully functional smart phone app. This technology lets you record such things as training tracks and deployment
tracks using GPS to map out the course and routes you’ve traveled. You can setup, distribute and complete training logs on your smartphone by using the app. You can attach photographs to any deployment record in real time from the smartphone app. You can also attach photos to your deployments from a USB drive or memory card. One perfect example of how PACKTRACK’s smartphone app helps save you time is by auto populating the time, date and location for a deployment or a training event that you create. Our user reviews indicate that 80 percent of the deployments are made with the smartphone app and that’s because it’s just so fast, simple and easy to do. If you’re interested in documenting a real life deployment track using the GPS, simply open the app, touch the green button in the center that reads “start deployment tracking”. Secure the phone in your pocket or your vest and go. When you’re done, touch the screen to stop the GPS from following you further. It’s just that simple. You can always complete or modify the deployment later when you have more time. Your location markers will be plotted on a satellite image of the earth and can be printed along with many other details of the track. This is the future of police K-9 recordkeeping and you’re living it in real time with PACKTRACK.
K-9 Records - A supervisor’s nightmare, no more…
If you’ve had to spend time in court defending the unit you supervise, you’ve learned really quick that K-9 records are a “make or break” game changer. You simply can’t afford to let defense attorneys take advantage of you when you know that what you and your K-9 unit does is right, legal and most of all reliable. Sadly, and all too often, the shadow that a defense attorney can cast with endless examples of poor recordkeeping can reach far beyond the boundaries of your agency. Don’t be recognized by having your name attached to case law in a negative light that affects how everyone else trains and deploys. PACKTRACK is the game changer for supervisors and handlers in a big way. Everything is organized, it’s instant access to data that doesn’t require you to drag out a calculator or rely on a spreadsheet. With PACKTRACK you won’t get inconsistencies between K-9 handlers’ records. PACKTRACK keeps everyone in line by distributing the same training information to everyone in the group. You have a wide range of options to choose from when creating statistical reports. You can look at each officer’s deployment activities for any span of time. You can create a report that shows the entire unit’s activities. You can create a training summary or see the individual training logs for the handlers you supervise. Because PACKTRACK gives you instant access in real time to the training and deployments logs of all your handlers, they’re always available, even when you’re in court.
Gone are the days when K9 logs are stacked and packed…
PACKTRACK will enable you to access your logs from any web accessible computer. You can generate a report of your training logs for any given time frame with a few clicks of the mouse. You can email them in PDF format or drop them onto a thumb drive for anyone who needs them. The time and effort saved with PackTrack when it comes to providing the courts and others a copy of your training logs could easily add up to thousands of dollars. Let’s say that you’re working a drug detection dog. You train quite regularly, perhaps weekly and sometimes more. It can become mundane and overly routine. You lose focus as to what goal oriented training is all about and suddenly you receive an email from PACKTRACK suggesting that you include specific proofing items. Those suggested items look familiar to you and there’s a reason that they do. PACKTRACK remembers what you enter when you record your deployments. It asks you to record what packaging your found drugs were in. If you forget to proof off of the packaging materials, PACKTRACK helps you out with goal oriented training. If PACKTRACK doesn't see the items as proofing odors in your training logs for a period of time, it’ll help you out by sending you suggestions. Not only will it remind to proof off of recent packaging from street finds, it’ll also send you goal oriented training tips about for target odors, the length of time you deploy your dog during training and if you use blanks/controlled negatives as well. No other system works like PACKTRACK because it was designed by handlers, for handlers.
Planning a training day has never been easier than with PACKTRACK
Let’s say that you’re working a drug detection dog. You train quite regularly, perhaps weekly and sometimes more. It can become mundane and overly routine. You lose focus as to what goal oriented training is all about and suddenly you receive an email from PACKTRACK suggesting that you include specific proofing items. Those suggested items look familiar to you and there’s a reason that they do. PACKTRACK remembers what you enter when you record your deployments. It asks you to record what packaging your found drugs were in. If you forget to proof off of the packaging materials, PACKTRACK helps you out with goal oriented training. If PACKTRACK doesn't see the items as proofing odors in your training logs for a period of time, it’ll help you out by sending you suggestions. Not only will it remind to proof off of recent packaging from street finds, it’ll also send you goal oriented training tips about for target odors, the length of time you deploy your dog during training and if you use blanks/controlled negatives as well. No other system works like PACKTRACK because it was designed by handlers, for handlers.
Goal oriented training and accuracy in reporting... Let PACKTRACK keep you focused on goal oriented training. Some agencies, ours included, have others join in on training days. Those from outside the area are sometimes unfamiliar with the training locations and need help getting there. With PACKTRACK, you create the training event and everyone in your group receives the training notice with a link to access google maps and the directions to the designated training venue. The old way of keeping training records required everyone to do their own logs and there is no way that a group of handlers will get the factual items correct 100 percent of the time year after year. When one little error or discrepancy is found by a defense attorney, it gets turned into a catastrophic disaster. They prey upon the little mistakes in your records just to make you look unprofessional and like you have something to hide. With PACKTRACK’s unique data distribution methods, the uniformity
and consistency of information brings reliability and professionalism to your recordkeeping process. We’re all professionals and PACKTRACK has you covered on the recordkeeping side of our business.
No system is perfect and nothing works like the last one you were so comfortable with... When we began designing PACKTRACK, our goal was to be better than any other and to serve a very definable purpose, to improve training and make your teams more productive and reliable. If we accomplish those goals the information will be wildly beneficial when proving the team reliable in court. Based on years of keeping records for our dog’s training and deployments, we set out to capture data that proves to people that the dog does his job correctly and reliably. Everything else we were keeping track of was for someone else and what they were using the data for seemed a mystery at best. As we progressed in the development, we would catch ourselves trying to apply the old standards or incorporate the old systems back into the new. We then had to analyze each piece of data that we keep and ask ourselves, is it truly necessary. What do we do with that information? Do we analyze it, look back and compare that data for some reason. Does it impact our reliability? We stayed away from creating a unit management
system, we stayed away from forcing handlers to input large amounts of redundant and unused data and focused on what will truly help your teams improve and what data you can use to prove yourself reliable in court. No system is perfect for everyone, but PACKTRACK is a proactive system that can make you train better and will save you hours of time because it’s so quick and easy to use. PACKTRACK’s analytics can make you more productive and certainly more reliable on the street and in court.
Reasonably priced for the entire unit plus you’ll be “Going Green”… There’s no need to print your K9 records anymore and that’s saving money and thinking “Green”. Electronic recordkeeping is our future, so join us on this journey to saving money and saving the environment. We’re working K-9 handlers and we understand the entire budgetary process from the inside. We know that PACKTRACK will change the way you keep your records and the savings alone is worth thousands each year in printing costs and man hours saved. There’s nothing to download, no paying for upgrades and waiting for them to be available. PACKTRACK is updated regularly based on user feedback. If your department captures specific data we don’t currently have in our system, let us know and we will do all we can to add that data into the PACKTRACK system. Know that when you contact PACKTRACK you will be speaking or emailing with current law enforcement canine handlers. We work and train dogs, just like you and we understand your K-9 needs, so rest assured that when you call, we’ll be listening and understanding. Our special offer and only for a limited time, is $10 per K-9 team, per month or $100 per year, per individual team. Non –handler supervisors and administrators are free. These offers won’t last but you can’t afford not to be a part of the PACKTRACK community.
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The Dog’s K’nose- David Adebimpe
2015 Drug K-9 Legal Update- Ted Daus
Environmental Factors That Effect Odor- Rick Ashabraner
Selecting and Training The Young Police Dog- Steve Dean
Tactical Tracking & Woodland Ops/ Critical Incident Debrief- Jeff Barrett
K-9’s In Custody- Dave Dorn
Following the Money Trail, Bulk Cash Investigations – Joseph Burke The Modern Approach to Training A Police Dog- Laz Cabrera Training With the Use Of A Treadmill- Laz Cabrera Quick Food Fixes That Will Improve Performance- Jill Kline K-9 Supervisor, More Than Just a Title- Ron Cloward Behavior Driven Training- Ron Cloward Sub Surface Odor for Explosive Detection Dogs- Derek Copeland Normalization of Risk in Explosive DogDave Dorn
Warrior Mindset/ Critical Incident Debrief- Marty Dulworth K-9 Learning Concepts and Problem Solving- Bob Eden Urban Areas Security Initiative- Ari Elkin Making Patrol Dogs Reliable Through Picture Training- Ricky Farley K-9 Learning & Clear CommunicationCameron Ford Selection Testing- Bill Heiser Corrections Special Operations K-9 Overview- Joseph Garcia The Aggression Model-Armin Winkler Real World Explosive DetectionMike Ritland
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e, you pick your own schedule Reasons We Get In Trouble- Bill Lewis Leadership Challenges in The K-9 Unit- Bill Lewis Trust Your Dog’s Nose- Mike Lewis Detection K-9 Problem Solving- Ken Licklider Prison Dogs= Steve Lowe Bad Religion- Rob Lukason Tactical Area Search- Jeff Meyer Fixing Dog on Dog Aggression Issues- Jeff Meyer Tactical K-9 Casualty Care-Laura Miller EOD Team Tactics, Techniques and Procedures- Ray Neely Tactical Police Decoy- Aaron Peterman Aggression and Decoy Work- Mike Ritland
Identifying & Resolving Problem Behaviors- Jason Purgason Service Dog Procurement from 1970 Into The 21st Century- Dave Reaver Power Biting- Justin Rigney High Risk Patrol Operations- Brad Smith Dutch Methods For A Street Worthy Dog- Greg Thomas/ Dick Van Leenan European Influence On The US K-9 Profession- Greg Thomas/ Dick Van Leenan K-9s In The Courtroom- Andrew Weiman The Puzzle of Street Tracking- Armin Winkler 7 Deadly Sins- Bob Wright Running A Successful K-9 Unit- Bob Wright Vapor Wake Technology- Paul Hammond Making Sense of Detection- Randy Hare