Accelerant Detection

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Accelerant Detection

Golden Gate K9’s Accelerant Detection Dog Training Course provides Fire Investigators with specially trained dog teams that assist in the investigation of fires. These Accelerant Detection Dog Teams are trained to detect and locate the presence of accelerants, such as gasoline, lighter fluid, and other ignitable that are commonly used to start fires. They also help determine the point of origin of the fire or explosion. This is a 8 week Course that covers 12 Target Odors.

This Course includes a Certification by a disinterested Certification Official under any Standards.

Our Training also Includes but is not limited to:

  • Selection Process
  • The basic needs for a Dog
  • The Basic Senses of a dog and what affects them
  • Essentials for Dog Training
  • Principles of Conditioning
  • Classical Conditioning and Operant Conditioning
  • The Power of Marking Behavior
  • Escape Training versus Avoidance Training
  • Extinction Training
  • Reward Training and the Reward Schedules
  • The Learning Acquisition
  • Defining the Final Response
  • Handler skills defined
  • Imprinting and exploring other introductions to odor
  • Search Areas
  • Search Pattern Techniques
  • Power of blanks
  • The Blind and Double Blind
  • Distinguishing between different odors
  • Applying variable reinforcement schedules
  • Strategic methods for training and placement
  • Odor hygiene and storage
  • Use of distractors for training objectives and advanced search techniques.
  • Obedience to Target Odor
  • Scent Discrimination
  • Obedience

This Course includes a Certification by a disinterested Certification Official under any Standards.