American K-9 Interdiction

I attended the 13 week handler/trainer course. When the course first began it was bad. They gave us an instructor Who basically never tried to help us, would hit the dogs or mistreat them. We lost about 1 week to almost 2 weeks of training and were falling behind fast. While the other groups were advancing to more complex training we were still pairing. Matt Goestchke was our savior, from the first day he came it was a drastic change. Matt has a lot of Knowledge and experience and made sure we were prepared for anything. He stayed after class with us if we needed help And was always there for when we needed him. Me and my K9 Pirata were so blessed to have worked with him during the rest of our stay in Ak9I. Detection, to bitework to off leas searches he made sure our dogs were confident in what they were doing. It got to the point where all we had to do was tell out K9 our search command and they would go to work on their own with pin point accuracy. I really appreciate this school for fixing the mistake they did with my group by hiring Matt, because if we would have been forced to stay with the old instructor i would have walked.

I have gone through the course twice and trained two different dogs, my first time as a new handler with no experience. My instructor(Matt) walked our class through every step of the way and taught us so much that by the end of our course I was confident and ready as an explosive detection team. I cannot thank my instructor enough, so much so that when I went through a second time that I made sure that I was able to get him again as an instructor because there was so much more than I could learn from him. Upon graduation a second time with a new , again completely satisfied with the training and results. Planning on going back again soon and learn as much as possible from the staff and my instructor.

I attended the 13 week patrol and detection handler trainers course in July of 2019. Doing security and doing bail enforcement the company I work for thought it would be best for us to start utilizing K9’s. My instructor was Matt Goschke who went above and beyond to make sure I was getting the right dog for the job, he took K9 Hawk to a whole new level he had never been too (Hawk was already trained and certified prior to me coming to the course). Matt put in countless hours to make sure I left the school with a top tier dog. Needless to say I did, sense returning back to New Hampshire with Hawk we have worked countless events as a team doing detection work at the Democratic debates, executive protection, and have taken countless bail jumpers into custody. None of this could have been done with out the tireless work of my instructor Matt Goschke and AK9I.