Anyone know of magazines for police dog trainers? Grace-Ellen McCrann 13 Feb 2004 00:00 UTC
12 February 2004 Some Police Dog/Rescue Dog Resources --- Many of the professional Police K9 associations produce some sort of publication/newsletter for their members and most of these groups also restrict their membership to current/former professional law enforcement personnel. But some also include publicly accessible articles re various aspects of using/training/caring for K9 dogs on their websites. 1) Membership in the North American Police Work Dog Association includes a quarterly newsletter. http://www.napwda.com/info/ 2) National Narcotic Dog Association http://www.nndda.org/ This website also includes a page of articles: http://www.nndda.org/topics.php 3) The United States Police Canine Association has a page of Canine Training Articles at: http://www.uspcak9.com/html/training_toc.shtml as well as a page of Canine Medical Articles at: http://www.uspcak9.com/html/medical_toc.shtml The Association's main webpage is at: http://www.uspcak9.com/html/home.shtml There are also several links on the page re legal opinions/information about the use of dogs in police work. 4) The Law Enforcement Bloodhound Association website at: http://www.leba98.com/ includes a link re the book, _Common Scents --- The Bloodhound in Law Enforcement_ Other related resouces include: 5) The Working Dog Foundation is an organization founded to support Police K9 activities in New Hampshire. Membership includes a quarterly newsletter. http://www.workingdog.org/ 6) The National Search and Rescue Committee (NASAR) offers a free email newsletter which includes some stories/information re search and rescue dogs. You/your patron can sign up for the newsletter and read the archives at: http://www.dbs-sar.com/Newsletter/SAR_newsletter.htm >From 1993-2003 NASAR also published the quarterly, _SAR Dog Alert_. All those issues are available online for free at: http://www.nasar.org/index.php?s=canine&p=2002alert There is an archive of articles written in the mid 1990s for a NASAR publication called _Response_. Several of the articles are about SAR dogs. http://www.nasar.org/index.php?s=response&p=index The URL for the NASAR SAR Dog Update page (includes links to an archive of articles) is: http://www.nasar.org/index.php?s=news&id=0&c=9 A fact sheet about SAR dogs can be found at: http://www.nasar.org/index.php?s=canine&p=2002factsheet The URL for the NASAR homepage is: http://www.nasar.org/ 7) The American Rescue Dog Association (ARDA) also offers a free online newsletter. This newsletter seems to be mostly news stories about rescue dogs and their handlers, but your patron may find it interesting. http://www.ardainc.org/news/index.htm ARDA has published a book re training K9 dogs --- _Search and Rescue Dogs : Training the K9 Hero_ http://www.ardainc.org/xsrdtm.htm An ARDA Research Paper "Utilizing Air-Scenting Search Dogs to Locate Drowning Victims" is available at: http://www.ardainc.org/waterpss.htm The main ARDA website is: http://www.ardainc.org/ 8) The York County (Maine) Emergency Response Rescue Team has posted "Using Dogs to Locate Drowning Victims" at: http://members.aol.com/ycerrt/waterdog.htm#Using%20Dogs%20for%20Drowning%20Victims 9) Ohio Valley (Indiana) Search and Rescue has an interesting page "Search Dog Training" (including an overview of the steps involved in their dog training program) at: http://www.vsar.org/SARdog.html 10) the Connecticut Police Work Dog Association has a page of K9 training/information articles at: http://www.cpwda.com/articles.htm 11) Connecticut Cainine Search and Rescue includes a list of recommended books on its website at: http://www.ccsar.org/recread.html 12) The legal side of using dogs in law enforcement is addressed on the "Canine Legal Update and Activity" website at: http://www.k9fleck.org/ 13) Information about "Scent Evidence" can be found at: http://www.scentevidencecanines.com/scentintro.htm and http://www.scentevidencecanines.com/missinglink1.htm These articles are from a website maintained by Ted Hamm, a paid civilian contractor with the Los Angeles County (California) Sheriff's Department. He and his dogs have been involved in over 700 criminal investigations. The URL for the website's homepage is: http://www.scentevidencecanines.com/index.htm 14) There are a large number of articles about law enforcement K9s (arranged by topic) on the Police Dog Home Page at: http://www.policek9.com/html/trainers_digest.html 15) The Nordic Police Dog Union (Denmark/Finland/Iceland/Norway/Sweden) publishes _Nordic Police Dog Magazine_ and a newsletter. http://home3.inet.tele.dk/nphu/ 16) The Canadian Police Canine Association publishes the _Longline_ magazine four times a year. http://www.members.shaw.ca/cpca/ 17) Western States Police Canine Association (California) publishes a newsletter. http://www.wspca.net/ 18) The Newsletter of the Oregon Police Canine Association is online at: http://www.opca.com/tracks/page1.html Kind regards, Grace-Ellen Grace-Ellen McCrann Chief, Reference & Government Document Divisions The City College of New York Cohen Library, 2nd Floor 138th Street & Convent Avenue New York, NY 10031 (212) 650 5073 gemscot@yahoo.com ------------------ --- Sharon Diehm <Diehm.SharonL@POLICE.QLD.GOV.AU> wrote: Hi Everyone, I am looking for magazines titles that may be suitable for police dog trainers. Specifically ones that are written by police dog training societies/associations. Can anyone help? This is an enquiry only and doesn't constitute and order. Thanks Sharon Diehm *********************************** Sharon Diehm Library Technician Serials Section Oxley Academy Library Information Resource Centre Queensland Police Service Mailing Address: PO Box 1110 / Archerfield Qld 4108/ Australia. Street Address Provided on Request. PH: +61 7 3246 8218 FX: +61 7 3246 8251 Email: Diehm.SharonL@police.qld.gov.au __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance: Get your refund fast by filing online. http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html