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Selena and/or any of our other Dutch members, could you please answer these questions for me?
1) Is it MANDATORY for a dog to get a PH1 prior to being certified and used as a Police Service Dog?
2) If a PH1 is mandatory is there another certification a dog has to get before working as a Police Service Dog?
3) I believe there is a tracking certification, is this mandatory for a Police Service Dog?
I'll answer these same questions about our dogs:
1) There is no sport title mandatory for our dogs prior to becoming a Police Service Dog. Some dogs get imported here with their sport titles, but it is not necessary.
2) Each state has a certification test that the dogs must pass prior to becoming a Police Service Dog. In California, we have to pass this test once a year for Patrol Dogs and Drug Dogs also have to pass a test once a year.
3) There is no tracking certification. In fact, many departments don't train their dogs to track because it takes so much time to do it well and because so much of our terrain is streets and hard surfaces, it takes even longer to train the dogs to track well on those surfaces.
1) Is it MANDATORY for a dog to get a PH1 prior to being certified and used as a Police Service Dog?
2) If a PH1 is mandatory is there another certification a dog has to get before working as a Police Service Dog?
3) I believe there is a tracking certification, is this mandatory for a Police Service Dog?
I'll answer these same questions about our dogs:
1) There is no sport title mandatory for our dogs prior to becoming a Police Service Dog. Some dogs get imported here with their sport titles, but it is not necessary.
2) Each state has a certification test that the dogs must pass prior to becoming a Police Service Dog. In California, we have to pass this test once a year for Patrol Dogs and Drug Dogs also have to pass a test once a year.
3) There is no tracking certification. In fact, many departments don't train their dogs to track because it takes so much time to do it well and because so much of our terrain is streets and hard surfaces, it takes even longer to train the dogs to track well on those surfaces.