Public Safety Dogs, Inc. - Proposal for School Resource Canine

At present more than half of the middle schools and high schools in the United States have school resource officers (SROs) assigned to them. These officers are there to ensure the safety of the staff and our children and to serve as a deterrent against those individuals who might bring drugs or guns into the schools.

Drugs and violence seem to be an everyday part of our lives now; but besides their physical presence, SROs have few or no resources to help facilitate their job of keeping our children safe in their schools. Currently, patrol dogs are brought into schools to help conduct searches for narcotics. However, the vast majority of patrol dogs are also taught to be aggressive which means that the chances are high that a child could be bitten by a patrol dog searching for narcotics. Obviously, this increases the chances that a school system and or a law enforcement department will be held liable for these injuries.

Weapons searches are more complicated, involving funneling all children through metal detectors and/or pulling certain children aside and using a hand-held wand on them. This is time-consuming and disruptive to the school staff, the students, and the police departments.

The solution to this problem seems simple. Train non-aggressive dogs that will be handled by SROs. This requires training breeds that are, by their nature, non-aggressive, such as Labrador Retrievers, Golden Retrievers, Border Collies, etc. These dogs are then trained to detect guns as well as narcotics. If dogs are trained specifically for SROs, they will be used much more often (with no disruption to other police business). Drug dealers and users will never know when a dog will be in a particular school—this will be a huge incentive for them to stay out of the schools, thus making our schools safer for everyone.

The cost of training and placing each dog is $8,500.00. This is a three step process.

1. Selection by aptitude and training for scent discrimination with assessment of each dogs mannerisms.
2. Three week training school in North Carolina where the designated handler is partnered with his dog to complete training together as a team to meet specific requirements for graduation.
3. Unlimited follow-up support only a phone call away after placement.

It also includes purchase and training with state-of-the-art scent collecting equipment that is placed with the team, including the STU-100 scent transfer unit, which the team takes home after graduation.

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Public Safety Dogs, Inc.
4581B Tangle Ridge Tr.
Burlington, NC 27217
336-578-8538 Phone