Born from a love of tracking folks with a K9 professionally and remaining an available resource for those who serve others.
See you in the forest.
-APT Team
Small classes and teaching folks to teach others.
Our primary reason using tracking K9’s is to be in the field locating the target and re-establish contact with a small team alongside us.
We have repeatedly been asked over the years to bring in subject matter experts to teach very small classes to specialized small teams. That eventually led to an organization and now a public business training K9 handlers, trainers and teams that are tasked with difficult missions.
Canine metrics is entirely focused on teaching tracking and applying the systems we are learning in the field to help teach handlers how to track effectively in a short period of time.
We are primarily teachers for professional teams working to get contracts in the working
The Nine APT Baselines.
Long Range Rural Tracking
The ability to track a suspect or group of suspects 12 hours to 5 days across a rural landscape safely is a tool that is beneficial to have ready in case you are asked. Students learn and then demonstrate this task on different terrain and use different patrol strategies to ensure they maintain control of the distance and timing of contact.
Urban Tracking and conditioning
Applying the principles of Adaptive Pursuit Tracking immediately in urban terrain allows teams to explore different techniques dealing with long technical tracks amongst homeless civilians, traffic and on non-vegetated surfaces.
Reduced Strike Apprehension
We use the Reduced Strike Apprehension method to ensure we can apprehend the suspects with care to distance, timing and minimizing energy output. This is taught with one suspect first then with a small gang to drive home the effectiveness of a small team working against a larger force.
Utilizing the most of your genetics
Each handler and working dog show up with unique genetics and environmental needs so our training structure reflects that. Training programs are written as a group for each handler so students learn how to further their learning in their home state.
Live fire inoculation
Adaptive Pursuit Tracking involves tracking while maintaining the ability to go to guns while moving along the track. We go in-depth about how to vary this approach in training to fit the needs of the team. There are portions of each class dedicated to going over the mistakes teams have made in the past so your team doesn’t have to.
Operational durability
Careers are often shorter than they need to be and we address this head on in each aspect of our training methods. Your team should be extending the average operational time as law enforcement professionals by 40 percent following these principles while working.
Cover team integration
Rarely would you ever be alone along a track. Teams of four to eight are common and we teach students how to integrate these teammates in ways that not only keep the team safe but open up communication and effectiveness.
finding explosives while tracking
Adaptive Pursuit Tracking teaches how to modify on the fly to changing situations like finding explosives along a track and then shows students how to recognize behavioral changes in the working dogs while they are tracking.
enhancing Social communication
Communication between a handler and a working dog can be faster and more effective if the training structure supports it. Fast communication and structured movements work hand in hand with the micro scenarios we teach.
“We used to teach tracking to law enforcement teams and now we teach tracking for law enforcement teams. That’s the difference. ”
