Summary of Qualifications:
 Detroit Police Officer for 31 years. (Retired)
 Handler in the Detroit Police Canine Unit for 30 years. Handler of
Patrol/Tracking, Narcotics, Explosives, and Cadaver Dogs.
 Detroit Police Department K-9Trainer for 27 years.
 Law enforcement officer Trainer /Handler 36 years
 Past Chief Trainer of the Oakland Community College Police Academy K-9
Training Section from 1998-2001.
 Nationally certified Trainer and Judge in the world’s largest Police Canine
organization, The United States Police Canine Association.
 Trainer, National Association of Professional Canine Handlers.
 Past President of USPCA Region 19.
 Past Member of the National board of directors of the USPCA.
 Chairman of the USPCA Trainers Committee for 12 years.
 Partner in Competitive Dog Sports, located in Columbiaville, an indoor/outdoor
training facility dealing in all phases of dog sports.
 Recognized as an expert witness in both federal and local courts in the area of
police service dogs, as a trainer and handler.
Summary of Accomplishments:
 Trainer and coordinator of the Detroit Police Canine Unit as it grew in the late
80’s to an all time high of 34 dogs and 29 handlers. Supervised and directed all
facets of the unit as it pertained to training, operation and deployment.
 Trained over 2,000 dog teams in all aspects of training.
 Instructing an average of 8 seminars a year for the past 20 years, a majority on the
national level in all phases of training.
 Used as and recognized as an expert witness in federal, state and local courts.
 Participated as a judge or competitor on either the regional or national level over
the last 45 plus years. Consistently finished in the top tier of competitors on both
levels.
 Recognized as an expert in the training of explosive detection dogs.
 Attended an average of 6 seminars a year in all subjects pertaining to police
service dogs. The last few years the emphasis being on explosive detection dogs.
 In 1989, attended 8 weeks as an invited participant, at the Federal Police Dog
School in Germany, in the State of Niedersachsen.
 Trained in 1989 for 4 weeks at the Royal Dutch Police Canine Training Center.
 Chief instructor for 14 USPCA National Training Seminars over the last 25 years.
Subjects dealing with Explosives, Protection, Tracking, Patrol and Decoy were
covered in the instruction.

 Initiated a new seminar training principal where we empower the handlers and
dogs to become more efficient by doing the seminar instruction to small groups,
for more hands-on instruction, and also do portions if not all of the seminar in
their city or work environment.
 Trained and also deployed at Henry Ford Hospital in the early 70’s with Canines.
 Trained 6 dogs and 4 handlers for Beaumont and Providence Hospitals.
 Trained the Detector dogs (explosive and narcotic) from the Wayne County
Sheriff’s Department and other law enforcement agencies in that training
consortium.
 Currently training with other law enforcement agencies on a regular basis in all
forms of training.
 Currently providing dogs for executive protection, explosive and narcotic
detection for private contractors.
 An instructor at seminars covering all phases of police canine work. (9 in the last
year)
 One of the chief instructors for Michigan Municipal Risk Management’s Canine
seminars. Two seminar and testing sessions a year conducted at Camp Grayling.
 Still attending seminars to expand and keep abreast of new training techniques.
 Currently conducting tests on new training techniques for detector and tracking
dogs. These tests may lead to improved training using existing techniques.
 Currently training and placing dogs for Police service.
 Trained the Michigan State Police K-9 Unit, Oakland County Sheriff’s
Department and numerous other agencies in Michigan and the Midwest on the
correct use of the remote training collar.
 Trainer of pets and household dogs for over 50 years