WEBVTT 00:00:01.314 --> 00:00:09.229 - Good afternoon. Welcome to the Bloomington. Recording in progress. Celebration of service. I'm Steve 00:00:09.229 --> 00:00:17.144 - Wicks, and I'm honored to serve as your president this year. Please silence your electronic devices. 00:00:17.144 --> 00:00:25.373 - On this day in history, May 26th, 1927, the Ford Motor Company produced the 15 millionth and final Model 00:00:25.373 --> 00:00:29.918 - T, the world's first mass produced affordable automobile. 00:00:31.394 --> 00:00:41.940 - So in honor of yesterday's Memorial Day holiday, please, if you are able, stand for the Pledge of Allegiance. 00:00:41.940 --> 00:00:52.007 - I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, 00:00:52.007 --> 00:00:58.622 - one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. 00:01:01.730 --> 00:01:10.325 - Thank you. So we had no one sign up for today's reflection. Most of the reflection spots in June are 00:01:10.325 --> 00:01:19.345 - still open. Please sign up if you have something interesting to share that you can share in three minutes 00:01:19.345 --> 00:01:28.025 - and avoid crossing any political or religious red lines. The link to sign up for the reflection is in 00:01:28.025 --> 00:01:30.238 - the roundabout each week. 00:01:30.498 --> 00:01:41.579 - So in replacement of reflection, we have a short Memorial Day video from 2023 that Tyler's going to 00:01:41.579 --> 00:01:52.771 - show. On Memorial Day, we take time to honor the men and women of the United States Armed Forces who 00:01:52.771 --> 00:01:59.198 - gave their lives in defense of our nation and its values. 00:01:59.746 --> 00:02:07.393 - On this sacred day, we reaffirm our commitment to those who paid the ultimate price. To never forget 00:02:07.393 --> 00:02:14.965 - those soldiers, sailors, airmen, Marines, and Coast Guardsmen who selflessly served our country and 00:02:14.965 --> 00:02:22.763 - gave their lives for our freedom, our values, our way of life. For we must never forget the price that 00:02:22.763 --> 00:02:29.502 - was paid to protect our democracy. We must never forget the lives, these flags, flowers, 00:02:30.146 --> 00:02:38.049 - and marble markers represent a mother, a father, a son, a daughter, a sister, a spouse, a friend, 00:02:38.049 --> 00:02:46.114 - and America. We honor not only those who served our country selflessly and paid the ultimate price, 00:02:46.114 --> 00:02:54.421 - but also their families. For Gold Star families, the price of freedom is personal. We are grateful for 00:02:54.421 --> 00:02:59.582 - the service of their loved ones and humbled by their sacrifice. 00:03:00.130 --> 00:03:08.203 - May your resilience inspire Americans to never take our freedoms for granted. Every fallen hero has 00:03:08.203 --> 00:03:16.438 - a story. It is our duty to remember those we have lost. It is our honor to stand with their families. 00:03:16.438 --> 00:03:24.996 - And it is our sacred obligation to remember all that you have given. Here at Arlington National Cemetery, 00:03:24.996 --> 00:03:29.598 - the final resting place for over 400,000 service members 00:03:29.890 --> 00:03:37.040 - and their family members, every day is Memorial Day. The service of these brave men and women is forever 00:03:37.040 --> 00:03:43.986 - enshrined in these hallowed grounds. This Memorial Day, join us in remembering these service members. 00:03:43.986 --> 00:03:50.046 - May their memory be a constant reminder of selflessness, duty, and the price of freedom. 00:04:01.122 --> 00:04:12.441 - Thank you, Tyler. Tracy Ivanovich will introduce our guests today. Thank you, President Steve. And as 00:04:12.441 --> 00:04:23.760 - I call your name, if you could please stand so we can welcome you. We have Rachit Gupta, guest of Jim 00:04:23.760 --> 00:04:29.086 - Bright. Marilyn Widd, granddaughter of Marilyn. 00:04:32.610 --> 00:04:40.452 - I'm not supposed to introduce him because he's usually here a lot, but I'm going to anyway. My neighbor, 00:04:40.452 --> 00:04:48.071 - Bob Walker from South Bloomington, Rotary, as in Fort Myers, and Tracy Goodman here with Hank Walter. 00:04:48.071 --> 00:04:54.046 - Then last but certainly not least, Ben Barranco here, guest of Jeff Richardson. 00:04:56.834 --> 00:05:03.718 - And if you all are interested in learning more about Rotary, we'd love to tell you more about it. So 00:05:03.718 --> 00:05:10.806 - just ask any of us and we'll be happy to give you more information. Thank you, President Steve. Thanks, 00:05:10.806 --> 00:05:17.417 - Tracy. Joy, do we have any guests online? Steve, we are a small group of Rotarians online today. 00:05:17.417 --> 00:05:24.232 - No guests. Thank you. All right. One birthday to celebrate this week on the 30th, Marcus Debro. And 00:05:24.232 --> 00:05:26.686 - then we have lots of anniversaries. 00:05:28.194 --> 00:05:36.592 - On the 29th, Judy Lucas, 29 years with the club. On the 30th, two individuals, Joy Harder, 20 years, 00:05:36.592 --> 00:05:45.323 - and Wilson Shatandi, three years. On the first, sitting over there at the reception desk, Judy Schroeder 00:05:45.323 --> 00:05:54.054 - and also Bob Salzberg, both of whom had been in the club for 38 years. Also on the first, Marshall Goss, 00:05:54.054 --> 00:05:57.214 - 39 years, Winston Schindel, 44 years, 00:05:58.018 --> 00:06:12.766 - Tim Thrasher, 45 years, and Fred Dunn, 53 years. Let's have Tyler, if you could put up the PowerPoint. 00:06:48.450 --> 00:06:54.634 - Okay, announcements for today. First, housekeeping item. Continue to have members who forget to sign 00:06:54.634 --> 00:07:01.063 - in. We track sign-ins both for attendance and also to make sure that we're square up, we're on the honor 00:07:01.063 --> 00:07:07.370 - system with IU Dining. So please, if you attend, just initial next to your name. If you're not eating, 00:07:07.370 --> 00:07:13.799 - we have a handful of people each week who don't eat, make sure you circle your name, circle your number, 00:07:13.799 --> 00:07:17.534 - and that way we'll make sure we don't charge you for a meal. 00:07:19.650 --> 00:07:26.517 - help wanted. Um, mentioned the weekly meeting roles besides the reflection. We have other meeting roles 00:07:26.517 --> 00:07:33.187 - that need to be filled for June. So please sign up. Uh, hopefully the link will be on the roundabout 00:07:33.187 --> 00:07:40.120 - celebration of service. We'll start with a Rotarian doing great things outside the club. So Lance Eberly 00:07:40.120 --> 00:07:47.582 - past club president, plus past district governor, and he has been named to the boys and girls club hall of fame. 00:07:48.130 --> 00:07:56.526 - The Boys and Girls Club board member for 23 years, chaired multiple committees, served as treasurer, 00:07:56.526 --> 00:08:05.171 - served as vice president, served as president, still active with the Boys and Girls Club. So it's quite 00:08:05.171 --> 00:08:13.484 - an achievement for Lance. And now another celebration of service. Last Thursday's Wonder Lab Summer 00:08:13.484 --> 00:08:14.398 - Blast Off. 00:08:15.074 --> 00:08:23.297 - Here's some pictures, here's the early crew, Ellen Strohman, Sally Gaskell, Diana Hoffman, getting ready 00:08:23.297 --> 00:08:31.599 - to greet enthusiastic youngsters. Here's a later crew, Mark Peterson and his wife, Patricia, Amy Osojima. 00:08:31.599 --> 00:08:39.430 - Here's Amy, and then on the right is Leslie Kutsenko, Rotarian, and also the Wonder Lab coordinator 00:08:39.430 --> 00:08:44.286 - of this project. She did a lot of work arranging all of this. 00:08:45.986 --> 00:08:53.036 - Here we have Leslie and Joy Harder and Peyton Flynn. As the sun came out, they put a tent up over our 00:08:53.036 --> 00:09:00.154 - table, which was really nice. And here are the people who made this happen. First of all, I think they 00:09:00.154 --> 00:09:07.342 - expected 600 children. They had 800. So very well attended. There was a lot of youthful energy. Besides 00:09:07.342 --> 00:09:14.323 - Leslie Kutsenko, Michelle Cohen, our community services co-chair, took the ball and ran with it from 00:09:14.323 --> 00:09:15.774 - the club standpoint. 00:09:16.418 --> 00:09:23.278 - And then members who helped, Lam Barker, Peyton Flynn, Sally Gaskell, Joy Harder, Diana Hoffman, 00:09:23.278 --> 00:09:30.351 - Steve Engel, Dave Meyer, Glenda Murray, Cindy Neidhart, Amy Osojima, Mark Peterson, Ellen Strohman, 00:09:30.351 --> 00:09:37.636 - and Steve Wicks. And then we had a couple of friends of Rotary who helped, my sister Cecilia Knapp and 00:09:37.636 --> 00:09:40.606 - Mark's wife, Patricia. So good job, club. 00:09:44.738 --> 00:09:52.657 - Hopefully there will be some children, more children reading this summer. Volunteers for Meals on Wheels, 00:09:52.657 --> 00:10:00.203 - I checked with Diana this morning and we have that covered for Friday, so we're in good shape there. 00:10:00.203 --> 00:10:07.301 - Okay, Beacon is an organizational member and their Solidarity Sleep Out is coming up June 5th, 00:10:07.301 --> 00:10:13.950 - June 6th. The link to sign up is kind of covered right now, but it's sleepout.something. 00:10:14.274 --> 00:10:21.396 - Both Forrest and Amy are here today if you have questions, but I think they'd like you to sign up if 00:10:21.396 --> 00:10:28.659 - you plan to sleep out. It's at the First United Methodist Church, Greenspace. So please consider doing 00:10:28.659 --> 00:10:35.711 - that. And then our meeting in two weeks. It is one of the weeks when the Union is booked with other 00:10:35.711 --> 00:10:42.974 - events. So we're meeting at the, in the Grand Hall, the Neal Marshall Black Culture Center, 1145 to 1. 00:10:43.202 --> 00:10:50.440 - You should be able to park for free here at the IMU that day, or you can pay for parking at the IU East 00:10:50.440 --> 00:10:57.468 - Garage, which is across from the Delta Gamma House. And then for those of you who get rides, there's 00:10:57.468 --> 00:11:04.567 - a really nice passenger drop off on the north side of the Neal Marshall building. And we'll have more 00:11:04.567 --> 00:11:12.222 - details in the days ahead. Other save the dates. Club Picnic at the Bryan Park Woodlawn Shelter on June 23rd. 00:11:12.706 --> 00:11:20.163 - the teacher's warehouse supply drive on July 11th and then the rotary toast is on November 6th and we 00:11:20.163 --> 00:11:27.621 - will right now they are selling tables for the rotary toast so if you're interested in buying a table 00:11:27.621 --> 00:11:35.151 - see me or Hannah Hirsch from our club is leading the efforts for selling tables so Hannah can help you 00:11:35.151 --> 00:11:42.462 - and she's sitting at the far back table. So Rotary 7 area is a focus I cover this almost every week 00:11:44.706 --> 00:11:52.018 - And we're finishing up Youth Service Month. So we did a lot of things this month involving youth. The 00:11:52.018 --> 00:11:59.402 - Wonder Lab Summer Blast Off was youth oriented and certainly our scholarship awards geared toward high 00:11:59.402 --> 00:12:06.786 - school seniors. And then Happy Dollars. So for the balance of May and June, Happy Dollar proceeds will 00:12:06.786 --> 00:12:09.438 - be donated to the Rotary Foundation. 00:12:09.922 --> 00:12:23.189 - be used to fight polio and undertake service projects around the world, including here in Monroe County. 00:12:23.189 --> 00:12:35.951 - And we do have time for Happy Dollars today. So is anyone happy? I see a few hands up in the air. We 00:12:35.951 --> 00:12:39.742 - are adjusting our technology. 00:12:40.066 --> 00:12:55.699 - I missed celebrating my birthday with the club last week, but it was on Sunday. So I'd like to celebrate 00:12:55.699 --> 00:13:06.270 - the fifth annual Refugee and Supporter Picnic Sunday at Cascades Park. 00:13:06.434 --> 00:13:14.247 - It was a great time. In spite of a little drizzle, it turned out to be a beautiful late afternoon. And 00:13:14.247 --> 00:13:21.984 - a special shout out to my bride, Cynthia Nighthart, for all her hard work in organizing this and also 00:13:21.984 --> 00:13:27.294 - the annual winter holiday party that we have for refugees. Thank you. 00:13:30.274 --> 00:13:37.669 - I think most of you know, we just got back from a almost five month world cruise, and I just want to 00:13:37.669 --> 00:13:45.210 - say here's $10. It's so nice to be back. As crazy as it is here, you just need to go to Mozambique and 00:13:45.210 --> 00:13:52.824 - see an AK-47 on their flag, and it makes you appreciate being here. And it's wonderful to see Rotarians 00:13:52.824 --> 00:13:58.974 - again. I am celebrating the start of the Bloomington Early Music Festival tomorrow. 00:14:01.346 --> 00:14:09.748 - today. Yes, we are celebrating the Bloomington Early Music Festival and tonight you can hear a quartet 00:14:09.748 --> 00:14:18.232 - from Philadelphia playing a federal fanfare at the Franklins. If you have never attended this festival, 00:14:18.232 --> 00:14:26.471 - it is music. It is not weird people in stuffed shirts, so don't freak out. But you will be amazed at 00:14:26.471 --> 00:14:30.142 - the range of music that was happening at our 00:14:30.498 --> 00:14:37.547 - 250th, and that's what we're celebrating this year. I left some brochures on every table. Ignore the 00:14:37.547 --> 00:14:44.735 - one that says FAR. Everything is at Trinity Episcopal. There are amazing workshops, coffee versus tea, 00:14:44.735 --> 00:14:51.714 - how to make your own quill pen. So many things. Go to the website. Show up at concerts. No tickets. 00:14:51.714 --> 00:14:54.366 - Just come and have fun and be amazed. 00:15:01.442 --> 00:15:13.179 - I'm excited because Linda has just produced a number that she's written, and it's already been in New 00:15:13.179 --> 00:15:22.270 - York. And so it will be coming out somewhere here, I'm sure. And so thank you. 00:15:26.562 --> 00:15:36.831 - Michael, I'm very happy because my daughter and my adopted daughter are both going to be visiting here 00:15:36.831 --> 00:15:43.710 - next week. I'm celebrating graduating law school earlier this month. 00:15:50.978 --> 00:15:58.364 - I'm happy to have celebrated two of my grandson's major life events. One graduated from IU this year. 00:15:58.364 --> 00:16:05.605 - He now works at the IU Fowl Golf Course, and he got to meet the Savannah Bananas. He was so excited 00:16:05.605 --> 00:16:13.136 - already. And then the other one just got married, and he and his lovely bride live here in Bloomington. 00:16:13.136 --> 00:16:18.494 - Joy, do we have any happy dollars online? No happy dollars online, Steve. 00:16:21.058 --> 00:16:30.599 - Okay. Michael Shermas, as soon as he puts down the microphone, will introduce today's speakers. Okay, 00:16:30.599 --> 00:16:40.328 - so this introduction is all wrong. Just going to start off that, but it'll be corrected by our speaker. 00:16:40.328 --> 00:16:50.430 - So K9 Twix is one of three working dogs at the Bloomington Police Department. He is a three-year-old yellow 00:16:50.594 --> 00:16:58.369 - Belgian Malinois, Twix is a certified canine member through the American Police Canine Association in 00:16:58.369 --> 00:17:06.374 - tracking article searches, building searches, narcotics detection, apprehension, and obedience. He works 00:17:06.374 --> 00:17:14.149 - the third shift and is part of the Critical Incident Response Team, also called CERT. And by the way, 00:17:14.149 --> 00:17:18.494 - Jordan Hassler, Twix's handler, is all those things too. 00:17:18.882 --> 00:17:25.746 - except he's not a Belgian Malinois. Neither is the dog that we have here, but he is a police officer 00:17:25.746 --> 00:17:32.609 - at the Bloomington Police Department. He's going to explain more. How about a hand for Twix and Cole 00:17:32.609 --> 00:17:39.473 - and Jordan Hassler? Thank you. Again, my name is Jordan Hassler. I'm a sergeant with the Bloomington 00:17:39.473 --> 00:17:43.550 - Police Department. I've worked there for the last 16 years. 00:17:43.970 --> 00:17:50.659 - and I appreciate you all inviting me today to come talk about one of my favorite things, which is working 00:17:50.659 --> 00:17:57.033 - with dogs. In the last 19 years, as an officer, I worked four years in Greene County prior to coming 00:17:57.033 --> 00:18:03.407 - up here. Working with dogs has been by far the most rewarding task that I've ever been given. So I'm 00:18:03.407 --> 00:18:09.781 - gonna go through some of our training stuff that we do, how to become a K-9 officer, what we do with 00:18:09.781 --> 00:18:13.694 - the dogs, how they become certified, how our dogs are taught, 00:18:14.146 --> 00:18:20.659 - And then canine coal is going to run a demonstration for you. Canine Twix is with me today. However, 00:18:20.659 --> 00:18:27.172 - he's out in my car. Again, he's a Belgian Malin Wall and he does do apprehension work, so he's not a 00:18:27.172 --> 00:18:33.749 - dog that I allow anybody to pet or love on. So that's why we brought coal because you all can pet and 00:18:33.749 --> 00:18:40.585 - love on him all that you want and there's no problems. His handler Detective Moscato. He works downstairs 00:18:40.585 --> 00:18:43.422 - and he's going to go into some of the stuff 00:18:43.682 --> 00:18:51.252 - that coal is used for and some of the techniques that they use. So with that, again, I'm one of three 00:18:51.252 --> 00:18:59.120 - dogs at the department. Myself and Sergeant Raybold have both patrol dogs that work on the road. Sergeant 00:18:59.120 --> 00:19:06.616 - Raybold works afternoon shift and I work the third shift. Canine Twix is my second canine partner. I 00:19:06.616 --> 00:19:12.702 - was a handler for Canine Ike before he passed two years ago, three years ago now. 00:19:13.410 --> 00:19:20.118 - And then we picked out canine Twix canine Twix is from Holland. He was flown over to the kennel 00:19:20.118 --> 00:19:27.385 - in Pennsylvania, shallow Creek kennels where we drove over there and did a selection process and picked 00:19:27.385 --> 00:19:34.443 - him out. Part of that process is. Watching the dog work on some small small drills to make sure that 00:19:34.443 --> 00:19:39.614 - they had the potential to be an actual police dog. You can understand or. 00:19:40.386 --> 00:19:47.276 - have an idea possibly of what it takes to actually be a police dog. They have to have good control work, 00:19:47.276 --> 00:19:53.969 - be very obedient, and have a demeanor to learn and keep driving. With all of our dogs in the training 00:19:53.969 --> 00:20:00.858 - that we go through, canine Cole is food driven. So everything he does throughout the day, he gets little 00:20:00.858 --> 00:20:07.617 - bits of food. He doesn't get fed two cups in the morning and two cups of the evening. He works all day 00:20:07.617 --> 00:20:08.798 - getting his food. 00:20:08.898 --> 00:20:15.593 - that makes his drive go higher and higher because he knows that everything he does, he gets to eat. 00:20:15.593 --> 00:20:22.557 - With K-9 Twix and K-9 Kimbo, everything that we do is ball driven. Everything for me and my dog is just 00:20:22.557 --> 00:20:29.319 - a game. We're playing. If we are out looking for a person who's fled officers or if he's searching a 00:20:29.319 --> 00:20:36.216 - vehicle for narcotics, it's simply a game. He knows that he gets to work around in the grass and track 00:20:36.216 --> 00:20:37.086 - this person. 00:20:37.218 --> 00:20:44.013 - At the end of the day, at the end of that track, he gets to play with his ball and play tug for four 00:20:44.013 --> 00:20:51.144 - or five minutes. And he goes back in the card and it's to the next game. Um, part of the article searches 00:20:51.144 --> 00:20:58.073 - that we do is, um, if a person steals a purse and takes off running and person is a dropping the purse 00:20:58.073 --> 00:21:05.406 - or a cell phone or any kind of articles at all, say they have a gun and they fired a shot as we're tracking. 00:21:05.826 --> 00:21:12.721 - the dogs will actually find that article or that shell casing in the grass or the purse. They'll smell 00:21:12.721 --> 00:21:19.682 - it. Just lay down. Say dad, it's right here. We pick that up. So the smallest thing, even the 22 casing 00:21:19.682 --> 00:21:26.443 - from a spent shell in some of the tallest grass, these dogs will go find that. Some of the questions 00:21:26.443 --> 00:21:33.271 - that we get asked for training portion of it, you know, our dogs are trained in fresh disturbance for 00:21:33.271 --> 00:21:35.614 - tracking and direct sense. So the, 00:21:36.546 --> 00:21:42.352 - disturbance is where someone basically just runs through the grass. Runs through the sand runs through 00:21:42.352 --> 00:21:48.497 - the asphalt. That area has now been disturbed and the best way for me to describe that is in the springtime. 00:21:48.497 --> 00:21:54.303 - Your neighbor that's the first one to mow their grass every year. Well, that's the same grass that was 00:21:54.303 --> 00:21:59.940 - there the day before and you never smelt it. But as soon as he mows it, you guys can all smell that 00:21:59.940 --> 00:22:01.406 - fresh green grass, right? 00:22:02.402 --> 00:22:08.869 - It's the same thing every time we step or walk. There's a disturbance in the ground with asphalt or 00:22:08.869 --> 00:22:15.402 - grass or sand. That odor smells different than everything else around it. And our dogs will actually 00:22:15.402 --> 00:22:22.192 - smell that odor. To the person we're trying to find. The same if I throw a ball or an article, it smells 00:22:22.192 --> 00:22:29.630 - totally different than everything else around it. Um? With all the dogs that it takes a little bit different time, 00:22:29.986 --> 00:22:35.409 - As a handler, our handler schools are anywhere from six to eight weeks long. So once we go through the 00:22:35.409 --> 00:22:40.779 - process and we are chosen by the department to be a canine handler, which generally is a person or an 00:22:40.779 --> 00:22:46.097 - officer who's been with the department five, six years, preferably a little bit later. That way they 00:22:46.097 --> 00:22:51.626 - know that this person can be a police officer and take care of a dog. In that six to eight week process, 00:22:51.626 --> 00:22:57.101 - it goes through everything from the initial meet and greets. So the first couple of days you're sitting 00:22:57.101 --> 00:22:59.102 - there and just playing with your dog. 00:22:59.522 --> 00:23:06.461 - just walking around, getting to know your dog. And then it builds all the way up into some of the advanced 00:23:06.461 --> 00:23:13.077 - stuff that we do with our dogs. But along the way we can make it to the end of week five. And if that 00:23:13.077 --> 00:23:19.562 - dog does something that, um, isn't satisfactory or they're just not getting it, that dog now washes 00:23:19.562 --> 00:23:25.918 - out and we're going to start to process all over again because we asked so much of these dogs and 00:23:26.722 --> 00:23:32.355 - You know when when push comes to shove and I'm catching a bad guy on night shift by myself who has a 00:23:32.355 --> 00:23:38.156 - gun, I want to know for a fact that my dog is going to do everything that I asked them to do. So again, 00:23:38.156 --> 00:23:43.789 - with my dogs I had Ike for the last portion of his career and with Twix I trusted with my life 100%. 00:23:43.789 --> 00:23:49.367 - I know for a fact that when I push my button on my belt and I'm away from my car, that back door is 00:23:49.367 --> 00:23:55.614 - going to fly open and he's going to come right to him. Technology is something that's come a long ways as well. 00:23:55.938 --> 00:24:02.146 - with these dogs. My car, I can log in. I have an app on my phone. I can tell you how hot, cold my car 00:24:02.146 --> 00:24:08.354 - is. I can tell you if there's a fire alarm, a seal alarm. I can tell you if my car battery just dies. 00:24:08.354 --> 00:24:14.623 - I mean, it's some of the technology that we have is amazing for these animals. And rightfully so, with 00:24:14.623 --> 00:24:20.770 - the training that goes into these dogs and what these dogs cost, I need to make sure that if I'm out 00:24:20.770 --> 00:24:23.326 - of my car, that that dog's taken care of. 00:24:24.098 --> 00:24:29.579 - So whenever you see these police cars just sitting, you know, on the street or a station or wherever 00:24:29.579 --> 00:24:35.114 - it says canine, don't think that they just got left in the car because I can, I can monitor my car 24 00:24:35.114 --> 00:24:40.540 - seven from my phone. Um, and if anything happens to that car, it's my phone starts making all kinds 00:24:40.540 --> 00:24:46.021 - of crazy noises. In the event that people ask, you know, they, you know, what if you lose service or 00:24:46.021 --> 00:24:51.664 - you don't, you can't respond on your phone. If a heat alarm, I have three alarms on my car. If the heat 00:24:51.664 --> 00:24:53.726 - alarm kicks off for the lowest alarm, 00:24:54.114 --> 00:24:59.499 - The windows drop and on the backside of my car, there's an exhaust fan. It starts pulling that cooler 00:24:59.499 --> 00:25:04.990 - air circulate through the car to cool it off. If it keeps rising, well, now the alarm is going to start 00:25:04.990 --> 00:25:10.745 - going off. It's going to start flashing and the sirens going to go off. It's to say, please cannot emergency 00:25:10.745 --> 00:25:16.024 - call 911. The last alarm that door is going to kick open. That way that dog can get out of that car 00:25:16.024 --> 00:25:21.357 - and they're not trapped inside of it. Something bad were to happen. So technology has been something 00:25:21.357 --> 00:25:23.838 - great for us and it's something that's needed. 00:25:24.674 --> 00:25:32.164 - Again, these dogs. With the training that we we work with them. It. It's never ending. For our policy, 00:25:32.164 --> 00:25:39.508 - our patrol dogs work at least 16 hours additional training each month. Canine Cole has an additional 00:25:39.508 --> 00:25:46.998 - eight hours that he has outside of his regular working hours. And that's just something mandatory that 00:25:46.998 --> 00:25:51.070 - we do to make sure our dogs are always doing something. 00:25:51.234 --> 00:25:57.199 - we generally always surpass that. Our dogs are getting almost an additional 20 to 30 hours a month and 00:25:57.199 --> 00:26:03.163 - just individual reps with the dogs, making sure they're sharp because I can't take an animal like this 00:26:03.163 --> 00:26:09.186 - and just go through the phase once, put them in a car and expect them to be sharp as a tool when I pull 00:26:09.186 --> 00:26:15.092 - them back out lit. And again, it's a tool and it has to stay sharp and we make sure that we get those 00:26:15.092 --> 00:26:20.478 - reps in and it's a game. Everything we do is a game and it has to stay fun for the dogs. Um, 00:26:23.650 --> 00:26:29.942 - Canine coal was a donation that we got from the not program. Is that correct? Yeah, so I'm going to 00:26:29.942 --> 00:26:36.233 - let John get up here and speak for a little bit about canine coal and what he does. The patrol dogs 00:26:36.233 --> 00:26:42.714 - are are fun. I love having them, but can I call is a specialty? He's one of our therapy dogs. He finds 00:26:42.714 --> 00:26:49.131 - electronic devices, so I'm gonna let him talk about some of that. Thank you Sergeant Hasler. I'm also 00:26:49.131 --> 00:26:49.886 - I'm really. 00:26:50.466 --> 00:26:56.744 - grateful to be here. I'm grateful for the invitation to come talk to you guys. We do quite a bit of 00:26:56.744 --> 00:27:03.336 - demos. It's typically for young school aged kids. So it's nice to have a crowd that's not not like that. 00:27:03.336 --> 00:27:09.865 - So yeah, so Cole came to us from not today. It's a program that started in Indianapolis and they combat 00:27:09.865 --> 00:27:13.694 - child trafficking, child exploitation, those kind of things. 00:27:13.858 --> 00:27:21.650 - and we apply for a grant, a donation through them to get canine coal. There's 11 electronic detection 00:27:21.650 --> 00:27:29.441 - dogs in the state of Indiana, which is what Cole is. He's a dual purpose dog. So his, his two primary 00:27:29.441 --> 00:27:37.233 - jobs are electronic detection and therapy, emotional support. So that can be both for officers at our 00:27:37.233 --> 00:27:43.038 - department or for victims of crimes. You know, most notably his very first, 00:27:43.234 --> 00:27:50.008 - Deployment so to speak as a emotional support dog was for a young child that had lost their parent and 00:27:50.008 --> 00:27:56.716 - we had to bring her back to our police department and I was able to bring Cole in and she was able to 00:27:56.716 --> 00:28:03.688 - find some comfort with Cole, which was just nice to see. You may hear Cole whine, he was probably whining 00:28:03.688 --> 00:28:08.094 - a little bit earlier, he just likes attention and doesn't like it. 00:28:08.770 --> 00:28:15.696 - Cole is three years old. He's an English Labrador Retriever of Black Lab. He originally started out 00:28:15.696 --> 00:28:22.760 - as a medical service dog. He failed out of medical service school. They have much stricter guidelines 00:28:22.760 --> 00:28:29.686 - that they have to go by. So a lot of electron detection dogs and a lot of detection dogs in general 00:28:29.686 --> 00:28:37.374 - do come out of medical service. He still has a lot of great attributes as far as being a detection dog for us. 00:28:37.826 --> 00:28:43.936 - So yeah, his primary jobs are to find cell phones, thumb drives, flash drives. A lot of my work as a 00:28:43.936 --> 00:28:50.167 - detective, I work for the Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force. So I investigate a lot of child 00:28:50.167 --> 00:28:56.216 - exploitation cases. And when we have a search warrant and we go to somebody's house, we are looking 00:28:56.216 --> 00:29:02.205 - for electronic devices most of the time. Sometimes these suspects will want to hide their devices. 00:29:02.205 --> 00:29:03.838 - And I mean, we've had them 00:29:03.970 --> 00:29:10.450 - We've had, you know, hidden cameras hidden in teddy bears and stuff like that. So his job is once we 00:29:10.450 --> 00:29:17.508 - go into a house, we will go in as officers and do a hands on search, look for everything and seize everything 00:29:17.508 --> 00:29:23.989 - that we can find. And then I'll bring Cole in to run through the house to see if he detects anything 00:29:23.989 --> 00:29:27.582 - that we may not have seen or come across. So I do have. 00:29:28.130 --> 00:29:35.028 - some bags that are set up here. Uh, some of these have electronic devices in them and some of them do 00:29:35.028 --> 00:29:41.859 - not. Um, this might be a little bit tricky, so we'll see how he does. So basically any odor, uh, any 00:29:41.859 --> 00:29:48.689 - electronic device that has storage capability has a chemical that's sprayed on the motherboard as a, 00:29:48.689 --> 00:29:55.655 - as a coolant. It's called triphenylfolene oxide. TPPO is what we call it. And that's the chemical that 00:29:55.655 --> 00:29:57.278 - he's trained to detect. 00:29:57.730 --> 00:30:04.430 - So when we're up here, I've got these bags laid out, but we've also got this looks like a receiver up 00:30:04.430 --> 00:30:10.999 - here. We've got the digital display on the wall over here and then this computer and camera. So all 00:30:10.999 --> 00:30:18.027 - of these items are giving that same odor that he detects. So and then with airflow, it's kind of dependent 00:30:18.027 --> 00:30:24.662 - on where he's smelling the odor. The odor from electronics is a very, very fine odor. It's heavy and 00:30:24.662 --> 00:30:26.238 - it falls to the ground. 00:30:26.562 --> 00:30:31.623 - Uh, even something like the projector up there, if we were to go over there, he may detect that odor 00:30:31.623 --> 00:30:36.633 - coming from the ground. So he may alert on the ground where that odor is pooling. So, uh, we'll run 00:30:36.633 --> 00:30:41.643 - through. I typically always, uh, run him on my left side. So I'm going to start down there and kind 00:30:41.643 --> 00:30:46.854 - of run back this direction. The commands I give him is I say, let's go to work. And that tells him that 00:30:46.854 --> 00:30:51.614 - it's time to, it's time to go to work. He's like Sergeant Houser was saying he is food driven. 00:30:51.938 --> 00:30:57.429 - I've got this bag here that has his food in it. This is the only way he ever eats. He never eats out 00:30:57.429 --> 00:31:02.974 - of a bowl. It's always out of my hand doing either training or deployments. So, um, I'll give him the 00:31:02.974 --> 00:31:08.410 - command to go to work and I'm going to tell him to seek, which is his command to start sniffing and 00:31:08.410 --> 00:31:13.901 - see what he can find when he either sits or lays down. That's his alert that he's in that odor. He's 00:31:13.901 --> 00:31:17.598 - smelling that odor somewhere. And then I'll ask him to show me and, 00:31:18.050 --> 00:31:24.867 - Hopefully as he usually does is he points his nose towards where he's smelling that odor. So again With 00:31:24.867 --> 00:31:31.488 - airflow with these devices up here There's liable to be odor kind of in between here, but then I got 00:31:31.488 --> 00:31:37.781 - my bags out So hopefully he he actually tracks onto my bags and not the other odor. So alright, 00:31:37.781 --> 00:31:44.401 - come on buddy. You ready to go to work? Good boy Good boy, so I'll start out anytime. I'm gonna do a 00:31:44.401 --> 00:31:46.302 - training. I'll start out and 00:31:46.434 --> 00:31:53.564 - by giving him just a command. I'm just going to do a walk through that way. He can smell anything that 00:31:53.564 --> 00:32:00.624 - may be around. Maybe he, maybe there's a crumb of food and he can, that way he can do that and not be 00:32:00.624 --> 00:32:07.754 - distracted by things as we go through. So come on, let's go to work. Good boy. Seek. Seek. So as we're 00:32:07.754 --> 00:32:14.814 - going, so he smells that and I say, show me. Yes. Good boy. And then as a reward, he'll get his food. 00:32:16.226 --> 00:32:23.363 - Oh boy, boy. So once, uh, when I'm doing this general walkthrough, once he does hit on an odor, that's 00:32:23.363 --> 00:32:30.501 - generally where I'll start actually working him. Uh, since he knows what we're doing, he's like, okay, 00:32:30.501 --> 00:32:37.430 - I smell, I know what we're doing. Yep. We already got that one, buddy. All right, come on. So just, 00:32:37.430 --> 00:32:42.974 - uh, for those, like may not be able to see it was a cell phone inside this bag. 00:32:44.546 --> 00:32:51.683 - Let's keep going to work. Come on, let's go to work. Seek. So he skipped over that one. He wasn't sure. 00:32:51.683 --> 00:32:58.752 - He's not super a big fan of the bags. We typically work in rooms where we have, you know, dressers and 00:32:58.752 --> 00:33:05.889 - beds and all that kind of stuff. And I try to make it as real life as possible for mobile demonstration 00:33:05.889 --> 00:33:12.614 - purposes. That's why we use these bags. So I'll bring him back down and start from the beginning. 00:33:12.614 --> 00:33:13.918 - Come on. Good boy. 00:33:14.946 --> 00:33:27.273 - Good boy. It's gonna work. Seek. Seek. Do ya? Good boy. Good boy. I don't remember which ones had devices 00:33:27.273 --> 00:33:35.646 - in them or not, but that's why we have him. So that was the cell phone. 00:33:44.866 --> 00:33:51.723 - Yeah, you already got that one. Yep. Yep. That's good job. Good job. Come on. Keep working. Keep working. 00:33:51.723 --> 00:33:58.192 - I know buddy. Come on. Keep working. Thought I had one more over here. Oh, okay. Yeah. I didn't see 00:33:58.192 --> 00:34:04.790 - it down there. Come on, buddy. Come on. Keep working. Good boy. Keep working. Go. Keep working. Seek. 00:34:04.790 --> 00:34:11.388 - They didn't look at it. Come here. You got interested in the food over here. That's why I let them do 00:34:11.388 --> 00:34:14.622 - those. Let them do those walkthroughs. Come here. 00:34:15.778 --> 00:34:24.140 - Show me. Show me. Yes. So he's he's detecting the odor there. He was not super keen on getting under 00:34:24.140 --> 00:34:32.833 - the table, but it was also a cell phone. So the other bags that he walked past were just were just blank 00:34:32.833 --> 00:34:41.112 - empty bags. I think I had, yeah, just little rolls of little rolls of baggies in here so there'd be 00:34:41.112 --> 00:34:43.678 - no sit that he's detecting. So 00:34:44.418 --> 00:34:50.547 - Hopefully you're able to see that OK, but that's typically what he does. It's it's pretty remarkable 00:34:50.547 --> 00:34:56.797 - when we do it inside of a house and he finds things. There's been times that he's gotten into odor and 00:34:56.797 --> 00:35:03.047 - I and I search all around trying to figure out what it is he's smelling and then we have to. I started 00:35:03.047 --> 00:35:09.237 - looking up and I realized that I mean we had one. We had a dog, an ESD dog up in Indy. Like two weeks 00:35:09.237 --> 00:35:14.334 - ago. He was alerting above a toilet seat, but he would not get up towards the wall. 00:35:14.690 --> 00:35:21.468 - they pulled a frame off the wall and there was a hidden camera inside the wall above the toilet. So 00:35:21.468 --> 00:35:28.721 - he was detecting that. So yeah, these dogs are pretty incredible. Um, that's why we keep them food driven, 00:35:28.721 --> 00:35:35.499 - uh, just because like he, he will always work for food. Uh, he has, I've never once seen him reject 00:35:35.499 --> 00:35:43.294 - food or act like he's full. He will, uh, he will eat as long as I give him food. So. So these, if you're watching, 00:35:43.810 --> 00:35:49.398 - Going back to it, everything's a game. If you notice how happy that tale was that little prancing that 00:35:49.398 --> 00:35:54.823 - he does. So I thought we're looking for anything that we do with the dogs anytime we're training or 00:35:54.823 --> 00:36:00.248 - we get started. Be fun. That's how we get those repetition. We make sure the dogs training and he's 00:36:00.248 --> 00:36:05.727 - he's enjoying it because once it's no longer fun or a game for him, they will shut down and it makes 00:36:05.727 --> 00:36:11.478 - the day a lot longer. So these reps like this we will get short reps, you know, three, four, five minutes 00:36:11.478 --> 00:36:13.214 - in a couple turns. Dog goes up. 00:36:13.410 --> 00:36:19.987 - doing our thing, come back out, start playing again. So it's part of, that's part of our conditioning 00:36:19.987 --> 00:36:26.628 - for the dogs. And you heard John tell him his cues. If you're ever out on the street and you hear Jeff 00:36:26.628 --> 00:36:33.270 - and I talking to our dogs, we speak Dutch and German. So reason being obviously is if bad guys running 00:36:33.270 --> 00:36:40.040 - and he's telling the dog to stop, I don't want the dog to stop, right? So everything that we teach dogs, 00:36:40.040 --> 00:36:42.942 - it's Dutch and German commands. So, um, and, 00:36:43.074 --> 00:36:48.423 - In reality, I don't think the dog would listen to a bad guy anyways when he's chasing him, but we want 00:36:48.423 --> 00:36:53.875 - to make sure that's not something that happens. So, the Twix and Kimbo, same thing. We can put narcotics 00:36:53.875 --> 00:36:59.275 - in the bags and the boxes. We run drills like that. We search around cars and it's the same thing. It's 00:36:59.275 --> 00:37:04.624 - always a game. And we're constantly looking for that, is the dog having fun? If the dogs, because dogs 00:37:04.624 --> 00:37:08.830 - are like humans, they can have an off day or a bad day or they have a head cold. 00:37:09.250 --> 00:37:14.456 - We're looking for that rate of sniff. Is the tail up? Is it wagging? Are they prancing? Are they having 00:37:14.456 --> 00:37:19.611 - fun? And if they're not, we'll do it again later. You know, um, but that's, that's part of our handler 00:37:19.611 --> 00:37:24.617 - stuff that we do. And our dogs tell us a lot more than what we generally pick up because if, if, if 00:37:24.617 --> 00:37:29.622 - I'm on a track or I'm trying to catch somebody, my sole purpose as the handler is to watch that dog 00:37:29.622 --> 00:37:34.778 - because his body movements and his demeanor and his tail wags and his rate of sniff or his head tosses 00:37:34.778 --> 00:37:36.830 - tells me exactly where this person's at. 00:37:37.762 --> 00:37:43.885 - I can take a person in a open field of leaves or even hay cover personally up. And as I get within 30, 00:37:43.885 --> 00:37:50.008 - 40 yards, Twix will give me a proximity alert to where he'll throw that head up and his hair will kind 00:37:50.008 --> 00:37:56.132 - of bristle up. And he's actually starting to scan now. Like I'm right here. Dad, I'm right here on top 00:37:56.132 --> 00:38:02.136 - of him. And it just, if I miss that, then I don't know how close I am to this, to this person. And I 00:38:02.136 --> 00:38:06.654 - keep talking about suspects. Um, we'll use our dogs for any missing person. 00:38:07.042 --> 00:38:12.472 - If we have somebody that has dementia or Alzheimer's and they wander off, um, or dogs or tracking dogs 00:38:12.472 --> 00:38:17.798 - at the end of the day, they're tracking an apprehension, but that goes back to me as a handler. Like 00:38:17.798 --> 00:38:23.123 - I just told you to proximity alert. I'm not gonna let my dog just run wild, right? I'm going to keep 00:38:23.123 --> 00:38:28.395 - control of him. Um, as we track that person who's done nothing wrong other than maybe wondered off. 00:38:28.395 --> 00:38:33.931 - And if we don't find them, you know, it could be a bad day. Um, once that dog gives the proximity alert, 00:38:33.931 --> 00:38:35.038 - I'll pull Twix back. 00:38:35.522 --> 00:38:41.027 - And now I send all the guys in, Hey guys, they are right here within, within a hundred yards square 00:38:41.027 --> 00:38:46.696 - of where we're at right now. Um, and some of the stuff that you don't think of as a handler, if you're 00:38:46.696 --> 00:38:52.421 - not experienced with it is we have to play a lot of the environment, um, on the street for patrol dogs, 00:38:52.421 --> 00:38:58.035 - the winds, humidity, the temperature, um, early mornings, the sun rises, the thermals of the earth as 00:38:58.035 --> 00:39:01.118 - it heats up and the thermals rise, that odor is rising. 00:39:01.794 --> 00:39:07.642 - So I have to learn how to play a lot of the environmentals and with the dog is as a dog's working as 00:39:07.642 --> 00:39:13.548 - well. So there's a lot that goes into these dogs. And that again, I'll tell you hands down, I've done 00:39:13.548 --> 00:39:19.453 - everything that you almost can do other than the dive team at this agency. And running a dog has been 00:39:19.453 --> 00:39:25.475 - the most rewarding and most beneficial ever. A lot of people ask, you know, what's, what's the downside 00:39:25.475 --> 00:39:29.470 - to having a dog? Well, there is one, there is one. I'm always dirty. 00:39:31.074 --> 00:39:36.584 - I'm always dirty before I became a handler. I was the guy that had the class eight. The buttons are 00:39:36.584 --> 00:39:42.148 - shiny. I look good every day. I was big into officer presence. I think that you feel if you're going 00:39:42.148 --> 00:39:48.099 - to be an off shield, you should look the part you know with the dog. It don't matter. It'll be the wettest, 00:39:48.099 --> 00:39:53.718 - muddiest day and that dog will be so excited when I leave my other car to come see me. He's giving me 00:39:53.718 --> 00:39:58.622 - hugs and now I'm covered in there and mud and everything else. So in our cars, you know, 00:39:58.914 --> 00:40:04.609 - I'm a stickler on my car. We got clean our cars up at least once a week. Now, if you have dogs or animals, 00:40:04.609 --> 00:40:10.144 - you take them from home to the park. Tommy get back, you know, there's some hair and button back. We'll 00:40:10.144 --> 00:40:15.626 - have a car, have a dog get back there for eight and a half hours throughout the day, you know? So it's 00:40:15.626 --> 00:40:21.001 - it's it's constant, but it's it's the most rewarding because when everything finally clicks and they 00:40:21.001 --> 00:40:26.270 - figure it out, it's it's the best thing in the world. You can ask these dogs to do amazing things. 00:40:26.690 --> 00:40:32.626 - I was telling the guys earlier like John here say that as part of the cert team or SWAT team we do a 00:40:32.626 --> 00:40:38.620 - lot of the major incidents here in the city and I want to make sure that my dog squared away and part 00:40:38.620 --> 00:40:44.614 - of that is I can take this red dot and I can put it on John here. As Twix sees that red dot, he knows 00:40:44.614 --> 00:40:50.609 - Dad wants me to catch that red dot. Why is that important? Well, if I have three or four people here, 00:40:50.609 --> 00:40:55.134 - I want to make sure my dogs getting that bad guy or he's going to that area. 00:40:56.258 --> 00:41:02.429 - We'll use this every night to like on the streets for building searches. We get a lot of alarm calls 00:41:02.429 --> 00:41:09.028 - at night and. Our dogs are locating tools. Well, it's much safer if it's nighttime. We can't see everything 00:41:09.028 --> 00:41:15.199 - just in my dog in to say dad. This is where they are. If I know that he didn't check off on a closet 00:41:15.199 --> 00:41:21.493 - or a cubby space or whatever, I could pick my head in and shine this red dot on that corner and he now 00:41:21.493 --> 00:41:26.014 - like a cat chases that red dot that corner start searching that area. So. 00:41:26.402 --> 00:41:33.162 - That's just some of the minor stuff that our dogs can do. And again, I don't want to take up too many 00:41:33.162 --> 00:41:39.856 - time. I want to leave you to leave you guys some time for some questions if you guys have questions. 00:41:39.856 --> 00:41:46.749 - But I truly appreciate you inviting us here to show off coal. I'm sorry to bring Twix in, but he's he's 00:41:46.749 --> 00:41:53.443 - not one that we can pet. So I appreciate it greatly. Thank you again. At some point the dogs have to 00:41:53.443 --> 00:41:55.166 - retire. When is that and? 00:41:56.930 --> 00:42:02.884 - What happens to the dog at that point? So I did not cover this. I think good question. So it depends 00:42:02.884 --> 00:42:08.780 - on the dog. Ike was clearly going to be my first dog was clearly going to be a patrol dog his whole 00:42:08.780 --> 00:42:14.675 - life. That's all he wanted to do. That's all he wanted to do is work and then he worked up until he 00:42:14.675 --> 00:42:20.570 - had some medical issues and he passed away with me in my car. Which I hated that, but again, that's 00:42:20.570 --> 00:42:26.878 - all that dog loved to do. I'm trying to keep it now to where our dogs work on the road six to seven years. 00:42:27.170 --> 00:42:32.738 - They then retire and they go back to their handler. All of our dogs live with us. They live at home. 00:42:32.738 --> 00:42:38.360 - They had their own kennels. They live in the house, Coles in the house. The handler from the day that 00:42:38.360 --> 00:42:43.928 - they are selected and that dogs picked up, they stay solid with the handler. There are a lot of days 00:42:43.928 --> 00:42:49.440 - like if I go on vacation, John goes on vacation, he'll call and say, hey, can you come take care of 00:42:49.440 --> 00:42:54.622 - my dog? I'll show up as a handler and feed and water to take care of the dogs. But yes, it's. 00:42:54.978 --> 00:43:02.384 - There's no there's no set dates yet, but I'm trying to keep it. Enough where they can work where they're 00:43:02.384 --> 00:43:09.507 - young and then have a few years at home to have time to actually be a dog and just live at home. And 00:43:09.507 --> 00:43:16.701 - relax a little bit. That was my question. Um, you said that when they retire they like they live with 00:43:16.701 --> 00:43:24.318 - their handler, but when dogs learn how to do all that stuff, do they ever like forget or do they just like? 00:43:24.482 --> 00:43:30.088 - their body just keep recognizing all of this stuff that they have learned so far. I don't know that 00:43:30.088 --> 00:43:35.806 - they ever forget. I can tell you every bad thing. I've tried to get away from Twix. He's never forgot 00:43:35.806 --> 00:43:41.804 - any of those things. Um, no, they, I will say this, that the dogs are very smart about picking up uniforms 00:43:41.804 --> 00:43:47.802 - and IDing things in the vehicles. He knows when I walk out in uniform, we're going to work. He's bouncing. 00:43:47.802 --> 00:43:51.614 - He's excited. He's ready to go. I walk out in shorts and a t-shirt. 00:43:52.002 --> 00:43:57.840 - I gotta go outside and walk for a little bit. I get my food. I'm staying home and he knows when we're 00:43:57.840 --> 00:44:03.735 - at home. We're at home. We're not working. We're not constantly checking everything. I have two little 00:44:03.735 --> 00:44:09.630 - boys at home and a wife and he knows that when I'm at home I just get to play with the boys and do dog 00:44:09.630 --> 00:44:15.353 - things. So there's some internal switch there. How do they interact with other dogs? I know you try 00:44:15.353 --> 00:44:19.646 - to keep them separate, but sometimes when you're out and about other dogs, 00:44:19.810 --> 00:44:25.762 - you can control your dog, but you can't necessarily control the other. Correct. So every dog is just 00:44:25.762 --> 00:44:31.654 - like us. We're all different. Um, I'm a very big believer from a little bitty puppy. Dogs should be 00:44:31.654 --> 00:44:37.782 - socialized. They should get around other dogs, other people, um, get exposed to as much as you possibly 00:44:37.782 --> 00:44:43.675 - can. Twix is very, very social. He loves, he loves every dog, every cat, whatever he could find. He 00:44:43.675 --> 00:44:49.214 - hates cows. I don't know why I would have cows behind my house, but he doesn't like cows. Um, 00:44:49.730 --> 00:44:55.794 - Now Kimbo, our other patrol dog, he's a little more territorial of his car and of Jeff. He barks a lot 00:44:55.794 --> 00:45:01.681 - more and he's just, he has a little bit more different attitude. But on the street when they're out 00:45:01.681 --> 00:45:07.628 - with us, we control our dogs, we tell them to sit, stay, go wherever and they'll do their thing. And 00:45:07.628 --> 00:45:13.633 - the biggest thing on the street is everybody else's dog that hasn't been through the training that we 00:45:13.633 --> 00:45:17.342 - go through or isn't on a leash. That can be tiresome at times. 00:45:20.002 --> 00:45:26.375 - Does Twix wear a bulletproof vest? And if he's going after someone to apprehend and they have a gun, 00:45:26.375 --> 00:45:33.001 - is he taught to take them down by grabbing the arm that has the gun? So he does have a bulletproof vest. 00:45:33.001 --> 00:45:39.437 - He does not wear it all the time. There's been studies shown that due to heat retention and heat loss 00:45:39.437 --> 00:45:44.990 - and the weight, they can't have heat strokes if they're just kept in that kind of gear. 00:45:45.218 --> 00:45:51.214 - Um, if I have a major call out where I know that, you know, there's possibility that this could happen, 00:45:51.214 --> 00:45:57.210 - I can put it on him. Um, he is trained to apprehend in the limbs and the arms. Um, part of the training 00:45:57.210 --> 00:46:02.976 - is, you know, that we have somebody with a gun that shoots blanks. Um, and he'll, he'll, he'll grab 00:46:02.976 --> 00:46:08.741 - either or he's not trained to tag just one specific arm for the threat. Um, but with that said, all 00:46:08.741 --> 00:46:14.334 - of these dogs are tools. Um, we use them for specific applications. If I know bad guy has a gun. 00:46:14.914 --> 00:46:20.357 - Um, a dog's not the best tool to send into that fight. I'm not going to do that. Um, now granted, are 00:46:20.357 --> 00:46:25.694 - there vehicle pursuits where we chase people at night and they run out with guns? I don't know. Um, 00:46:25.694 --> 00:46:31.244 - yeah, I had one the first this year. Um, but if I know ahead of time going into it that, you know, this 00:46:31.244 --> 00:46:36.634 - is a call out, this is the real deal. This dude's got a gun in here. Dogs, not the tool for that. So 00:46:36.634 --> 00:46:42.238 - I'm going to protect, I'm going to protect him and the rest of our dogs as much as I can. So, but again, 00:46:42.786 --> 00:46:50.203 - At the end of the day, if a dog loses their life over a human, then that's, you know, they are here 00:46:50.203 --> 00:46:57.694 - for that, but I'm gonna mitigate as much as I possibly can. Sergeant, thank you, number one, for not 00:46:57.694 --> 00:47:05.260 - bringing Twix. This is from our Shih Tzu, our 10-pound Shih Tzu. I'm wondering, as a little boy, were 00:47:05.260 --> 00:47:08.894 - you a dog person? Good question. So, absolutely. 00:47:09.890 --> 00:47:16.174 - I grew up in law enforcement, my family's comes from law enforcement background and I have a large hunting 00:47:16.174 --> 00:47:22.283 - background. And from the time I was probably nine or 10, I raised labs and I've had labs my whole life. 00:47:22.283 --> 00:47:28.508 - Um, and seeing that working portion of it, and I kind of got into the trial runs and the, uh, the testing 00:47:28.508 --> 00:47:34.675 - of the labs is just keep pushing and pushing and pushing. And that's all I knew until I became an actual 00:47:34.675 --> 00:47:39.550 - handler and going from a lab to a patrol dog with pointy ears, it's night and day. 00:47:39.778 --> 00:47:46.642 - these dogs pick up things so quick and it's it's so again it's it's the it's the ratification of here's 00:47:46.642 --> 00:47:53.308 - a small task I want you to learn and do going through all the steps taking the time and the reps and 00:47:53.308 --> 00:48:00.106 - finally one day it just clicks and it's it's amazing that I've been a dog person my whole life. So how 00:48:00.106 --> 00:48:06.904 - many calls per year average calls per year do the dogs tend to perform their duties in active service? 00:48:06.904 --> 00:48:09.214 - I don't have the totals right now. 00:48:09.986 --> 00:48:17.226 - We're averaging on patrol with Jeff and I, we're, we're probably getting 25 to 35 deployments a month 00:48:17.226 --> 00:48:24.537 - where the dogs drive the car with us. Um, and again, we're both supervisors, so we have our supervisor 00:48:24.537 --> 00:48:31.706 - task as well as canine task. So I would like to see them twice that many, but, um, our average calls 00:48:31.706 --> 00:48:36.958 - are finding articles or items or sniffing for narcotics. Um, we may have, 00:48:38.562 --> 00:48:45.518 - call out or two every month and a half, two months. Most of our deployments are trying to find something 00:48:45.518 --> 00:48:52.209 - on the street. Do the dogs ever mistake legal substances? Like I'm not sure if it's Delta 8 or Delta 00:48:52.209 --> 00:48:58.899 - 9, but I think one of them is legal versus illegal marijuana. Do they ever mix up between those two? 00:48:58.899 --> 00:49:05.789 - For this reason, neither of our patrol dogs are certified or detect marijuana. They do hard substances, 00:49:05.789 --> 00:49:07.710 - meth, meth, cocaine, heroin, 00:49:07.906 --> 00:49:14.058 - And that's cocaine, heroin, and no, we actually stay away from fentanyl because it's so potent anyways 00:49:14.058 --> 00:49:20.329 - that we don't even mess with it on the street. If we find it, we think it's fentanyl, we totally discard 00:49:20.329 --> 00:49:26.361 - it. Go ahead. I can't say discard it. We send it off to the lab to have them test it. Yeah, we don't 00:49:26.361 --> 00:49:32.334 - throw it away or nothing. And does that work for prescription drugs as well? I know some drugs have 00:49:32.334 --> 00:49:37.470 - similar chemical makeup, similar to that point that we just discussed this earlier is 00:49:37.570 --> 00:49:43.873 - Some of these dogs that may be trained on fentanyl, well, people can legally prescribe, have prescription 00:49:43.873 --> 00:49:49.997 - for fentanyl, for scripts or pills or whatever it is. And that becomes, I think, kind of an issue down 00:49:49.997 --> 00:49:56.181 - the road. So to avoid that, we stuck with the hard powders and got away from marijuana because one day, 00:49:56.181 --> 00:50:02.424 - you know, if they were happened, if they do happen to legalize that, then that dog's now out of service. 00:50:02.424 --> 00:50:04.862 - So. Where are some of the training done? 00:50:05.058 --> 00:50:11.896 - in the United States. I'm sure it's different places. Um, and my second question is, um, my sister had 00:50:11.896 --> 00:50:18.535 - a health service dog. Did I hear you say this dog is health service trained also? And if so, what's 00:50:18.535 --> 00:50:25.573 - the difference in training? So I had mentioned that Cole, he started out when he was younger as a medical 00:50:25.573 --> 00:50:31.614 - service dog, he was going through the training for that, but he failed out of that school. 00:50:32.098 --> 00:50:38.702 - I don't know for what reason. And then the trainer that trains detection dogs bought him from the company 00:50:38.702 --> 00:50:44.931 - that was training him for medical service. So he's not, he's not certified medical or anything like 00:50:44.931 --> 00:50:51.286 - that. He's just strictly detection of electronics and then emotional support. Where are they trained? 00:50:51.286 --> 00:50:58.014 - Cole specifically came out of Indianapolis. It's a company called Jordan Detection. Todd Jordan is the, uh, 00:50:58.498 --> 00:51:04.424 - Owner of that, if you remember the Jared Fogle, the subway guy back in 2015 at 2015 or 2014, but one 00:51:04.424 --> 00:51:10.349 - of the headline pictures from that was Todd Jordan walking out with an electronic detection dog. And 00:51:10.349 --> 00:51:16.451 - at the time, no one really knew what that was. So they're all wondering why. Why is there a canine come 00:51:16.451 --> 00:51:22.552 - out of the house? Well, that was kind of the first. That was kind of the beginning stages of electronic 00:51:22.552 --> 00:51:26.366 - detection. The training portion of that for for the patrol dogs. 00:51:26.562 --> 00:51:31.944 - Both of our dogs are trained in the American police. Can't are certified to the American Police 00:51:31.944 --> 00:51:37.719 - K9 Association and through Napa water, which is the North American Working Dog Police Association. And 00:51:37.719 --> 00:51:43.382 - they're nationally accredited. And they put out these guidelines that if you want to be part of this 00:51:43.382 --> 00:51:49.045 - group, you gotta pay your dues and you gotta pass this book of certification stuff and we have local 00:51:49.045 --> 00:51:54.820 - groups and trainers that are certified through those agencies or organizations that we all train with. 00:51:54.820 --> 00:51:56.446 - So at least twice a month we 00:51:56.546 --> 00:52:03.805 - meet together as a group, whether it be in Bloomington, Barnesville, Knox County, Bedford, or I guess 00:52:03.805 --> 00:52:10.992 - Morgan County as well. And we all train together and we do certain portions or tasks that we work on 00:52:10.992 --> 00:52:18.251 - each month. Hi, thanks. I was wondering, can a civilian get their hands on one of these working dogs, 00:52:18.251 --> 00:52:24.798 - you know, and maybe privatize some of the services or, you know, use them as a tool like on 00:52:25.218 --> 00:52:32.042 - their own or is it something that's very specific to like law enforcement? So anybody can have a working 00:52:32.042 --> 00:52:38.737 - dog. Um, something right now that's huge, that's, that's a growing industry for whatever reason is the 00:52:38.737 --> 00:52:45.236 - bed bug detection. There are bed, there are dogs now that are trained working dogs that if you have 00:52:45.236 --> 00:52:50.046 - a hope that's the biggest things, hotels, hotels and assisted living. Um, 00:52:51.138 --> 00:52:56.162 - If you think that maybe someone's got bed bugs, they bring these dogs in that are trained on the pseudo 00:52:56.162 --> 00:53:01.090 - odor of bed bugs. And we literally just worked with them two weeks ago with training. It's first dogs 00:53:01.090 --> 00:53:05.921 - I've seen that were certified in this and they had this little, um, uh, uh, what was that? It was a 00:53:05.921 --> 00:53:10.849 - little GSP, um, German short hair pointer. And this little dog come in like a rocket and he's working 00:53:10.849 --> 00:53:15.777 - around these chairs. As soon as he got in that odor, he just sat and put his head right on that seat. 00:53:15.777 --> 00:53:17.854 - I thought this is, this is something else. 00:53:18.434 --> 00:53:28.268 - But yeah, even patrol dogs or electronics. If you got the money, you can do it. Can both of you kind 00:53:28.268 --> 00:53:38.102 - of just say, what's the most amazing thing you've ever seen your dog do? I mean, I'm amazed. So it's 00:53:38.102 --> 00:53:47.742 - one thing when I do training, a good portion of the training that we do, I know where devices are. 00:53:47.874 --> 00:53:53.693 - If we're doing where, where neither him or I know where it's at, I at least know that I am looking for 00:53:53.693 --> 00:53:59.738 - something. Uh, it's just amazes me every time we go into a suspect's house after we do the search warrant, 00:53:59.738 --> 00:54:05.501 - I have no idea if there's anything in there or not. So we're going through, I don't know if he's just 00:54:05.501 --> 00:54:11.207 - trying to lie to me so he can get fed. Uh, but, but it's absolutely incredible for me when he alerts 00:54:11.207 --> 00:54:16.574 - and we do find a hidden device. It's, it's beyond, yeah, it's, it's incredible for me. So, so, 00:54:17.250 --> 00:54:22.693 - They always say this handlers that that we operate the dumb into the leash because we are the we are 00:54:22.693 --> 00:54:28.566 - the lowest portion of this team right here because these dogs are so smart. 90% of the time when something's 00:54:28.566 --> 00:54:34.117 - missed, it's because we've missed what the dog has told us. And same thing. I mean, just just tracking 00:54:34.117 --> 00:54:39.505 - people or people that need to be caught and the dog told me one thing, but I'm so smart that I know 00:54:39.505 --> 00:54:45.110 - he went this way instead of this way. And of course the guys right there on the corner on the left side 00:54:45.110 --> 00:54:45.918 - and it's just. 00:54:46.178 --> 00:54:53.309 - As a handler, it takes reps and a lot of time to realize that, Hey, you know, listen to your dog, 00:54:53.309 --> 00:55:00.586 - your dog, promise you your dog knows more than you do. So yeah, a hundred percent. It absolutely is 00:55:00.586 --> 00:55:07.935 - the training that we went through. It's, it's me learning how he works. Yeah. It's, it's not me like 00:55:07.935 --> 00:55:11.646 - teaching him things. He's teaching me. Yeah. Yeah. 00:55:22.050 --> 00:55:29.175 - and john thank you um working tonight it was my night all okay yeah i have a lot of respect for third 00:55:29.175 --> 00:55:36.160 - shift people who come in at noon the following day or yeah um wonderful presentation i think col is 00:55:36.160 --> 00:55:43.284 - an example for all of us when you fail at something in life there's still something else that you can 00:55:43.284 --> 00:55:50.479 - accomplish so good job col um john and jordan in order of your talk a traditional we made this quarter 00:55:50.479 --> 00:55:51.806 - to wheeler mission 00:55:52.898 --> 00:56:03.046 - I'd like to thank today's volunteers. Our next meeting will be here in the Georgian Room on June 2nd. 00:56:03.046 --> 00:56:13.194 - Bill Daniels will speak to us about growing native plants from seed. Please join us. So Tyler, if you 00:56:13.194 --> 00:56:21.054 - would share the graphic for the four-way test and please stand if you're able. 00:56:28.290 --> 00:56:35.787 - Of the things we think, say, or do, first, is it the truth? Second, is it fair to all concerned? Third, 00:56:35.787 --> 00:56:43.429 - will it build goodwill and better friendships? Fourth, will it be beneficial to all concerned? And fifth, 00:56:43.429 --> 00:56:44.222 - is it fun?