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Home My WebLink AboutRE: Updates to Certification Testing Mike Plane From:Kevin Loosli Sent:Tuesday, July 25, 2023 10:41 To:Justin Cyr Subject:RE: Updates to Certification Testing I like! From: Justin Cyr <JCyr@tfid.org> Sent: Monday, July 24, 2023 3:47 PM To: Brad Baisch <BBaisch@tfid.org>; Josh Rivers <jrivers@tfid.org>; Kevin Loosli <Kloosli@tfid.org>; Tyler Shropshire <TShropshire@tfid.org> Subject: FW: Updates to Certification Testing Check it out and lets send an opinion tomorrow at training if possible it sounds like the muzzle ﬁght may go away with the email thread. From: Nichols, Mary <jil.nichols@post.idaho.gov> Sent: Tuesday, July 18, 2023 2:14 PM To: Braswell, Chad <Chad.Braswell@isp.idaho.gov>; Bryce Moore <bryce.moore@canyoncounty.id.gov>; Chris Reese <creese@cityoflewiston.org>; Cottrell, Christopher <chris.cottrell@isp.idaho.gov>; Frank Bowne <fbowne@postfallspolice.gov>; Jared Miller <jmiller@co.bingham.id.us>; Jason Sorenson <jsorenson@co.bonneville.id.us>; Justin Cyr <JCyr@tfid.org>; jwalbey2@gmail.com; k9cop368@gmail.com; k9hutcheson@msn.com; Kenny Emery <kemery@cassiacounty.org>; Matthew Shutes <mshutes@pocatello.us>; Pat McKenna <patrick.mckenna@providence.org>; 'Patrick McKenna' <pmckenna20@gmail.com>; Peter Klepich <pklepich@idahofallsidaho.gov> Subject: RE: Updates to Certification Testing \[EXTERNAL SENDER\] Good a?ernoon K-9 Evaluators, As per my email last week, I am a?aching a copy of the proposed changes regarding Canine cer?ﬁca?ons. All proposed changes are highlighted in Yellow. Nothing is set in stone so let’s talk about these if anyone has ques?ons or concerns. Please make sure to reply to all so everyone can see the responses. If we need too, we can certainly get together on a TEAMS mee?ng soon. The biggest change that you will see is on the patrol side with the addi?on of a Muzzle exercise with contact. J IL N ICHOLS D EPUTY D IVISION A DMINISTRATOR K-9 C OORDINATOR Idaho Peace Officer Standards & Training 700 S. Stratford Dr. Meridian, ID 83642-6202 208-884-7256 desk Jil.nichols@post.idaho.gov 1 post.idaho.gov “Professionalism Through Training” CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This e-mail is intended only for the personal and conﬁden?al use of the individual(s) named as recipients (or the employee or agent responsible to deliver it to the intended recipient) and is covered by the Electronic Communica?ons Privacy Act, 18 U.S.C. §§ 2510-2521. It may contain informa?on that is privileged, conﬁden?al and/or protected from disclosure under applicable law including, but not limited to, the a?orney client privilege and/or work product doctrine. If you are not the intended recipient of this transmission, please no?fy the sender immediately by telephone. Do not deliver, distribute or copy this transmission, disclose its contents or take any ac?on in reliance on the informa?on it contains. From: Nichols, Mary Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2023 2:53 PM To: Braswell, Chad <Chad.Braswell@isp.idaho.gov>; Bryce Moore <bryce.moore@canyoncounty.id.gov>; Chris Reese <creese@cityoflewiston.org>; Cottrell, Christopher <chris.cottrell@isp.idaho.gov>; Frank Bowne <fbowne@postfallspolice.gov>; Jared Miller <jmiller@co.bingham.id.us>; Jason Sorenson <jsorenson@co.bonneville.id.us>; Justin Cyr <jcyr@tfid.org>; jwalbey2@gmail.com; k9cop368@gmail.com; k9hutcheson@msn.com; Kenny Emery <kemery@cassiacounty.org>; Matthew Shutes <mshutes@pocatello.us>; Pat McKenna <patrick.mckenna@providence.org>; Patrick McKenna <pmckenna20@gmail.com>; Peter Klepich <pklepich@idahofallsidaho.gov> Subject: Updates to Certification Testing Hello all, I am reaching out to you all today to give you a heads up that there have been some recent issues arise in the Boise area that have led me to believe that some of our criteria for Patrol and Detec?on Cer?ﬁca?on standards needs to be adjusted. Presently, law enforcement K-9’s are under a lot of legal scru?ny and I think it is important for us to be ahead of poten?al issues instead of trying to defend ourselves on the stand when we are asked why we cer?ﬁed a par?cular team. If you remember back to the beginning of the year when I sent out the 2022 stats, I commented on how much the failure rate had increased. We are seeing that folks are simply training to the standard and not to a real deployment. The POST standard is a minimum and there are teams struggling to meet that bare minimum. The cross over from cer?ﬁca?on to real deployment in detec?on is not too substan?al but the crossover from cer?ﬁca?on to real deployment in patrol is vast. So I have made a couple of minor changes to the detec?on standards based on current case law and what I have recently seen throughout the state. The Patrol standards, there will be some more robust changes but nothing crazy and I am sure that most of you already training this stuﬀ. As always, nothing is set in stone un?l we are able to discuss as a group. I am adding the informa?on to the current procedure with yellow highlight to draw your a?en?on to the changes. I am s?ll working on the en?re document but I wanted to send an email to give you all a heads up that it was coming. Probably the ﬁrst part of next week, be looking for it. Thank you for what you do. I appreciate all of you! 2 J IL N ICHOLS D EPUTY D IVISION A DMINISTRATOR K-9 C OORDINATOR Idaho Peace Officer Standards & Training 700 S. Stratford Dr. Meridian, ID 83642-6202 208-884-7256 desk Jil.nichols@post.idaho.gov post.idaho.gov “Professionalism Through Training” CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This e-mail is intended only for the personal and conﬁden?al use of the individual(s) named as recipients (or the employee or agent responsible to deliver it to the intended recipient) and is covered by the Electronic Communica?ons Privacy Act, 18 U.S.C. §§ 2510-2521. It may contain informa?on that is privileged, conﬁden?al and/or protected from disclosure under applicable law including, but not limited to, the a?orney client privilege and/or work product doctrine. If you are not the intended recipient of this transmission, please no?fy the sender immediately by telephone. Do not deliver, distribute or copy this transmission, disclose its contents or take any ac?on in reliance on the informa?on it contains. 3