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KEYNOTE  SPEAKER

Andy’s education and experience with police dog training has steered his career path into developing an industry leading recordkeeping software program called PackTrack. His depth of knowledge and understanding of state and federal laws regarding search and seizure has been an enormous asset to hundreds of K-9 handlers who attend his K-9 training courses.  Andy’s ability to teach detection canines was refined through over a decade of training for MCTFT Multi-Jurisdictional Counter Drug Task Force Training Center.  Andy taught thousands of handlers all over the US and its territories.   Andy has served on the editorial advisory board for Police K-9 Magazine and created HITS, the training conference known for its breadth of diversified K9 training lectures.   Andy was a co-author of the book “Canines in the Courtroom” used by handlers, trainers, and supervisors as reference material for training courses. 

Andy’s expert opinions on drug dogs and recordkeeping will surely help bring the entire law enforcement K9 industry to a higher level of clarity. His countless court appearances and proven skills as an expert witness on the stand are clear testimony to the effectiveness of proper K9 recordkeeping as a means to establishing K9 reliability. As a K9 trainer and handler with the Broward County Sheriff’s Office in Florida, Andy continues to educate others through his direct oversight of the training.

Class Description – We all know how routine and mundane our training days can become over time.  This class is designed to highlight the specific training scenarios that center around the essential training techniques that elicit good handling and proper K-9 responses.  The ideas presented in this training course will give you food for thought for improving your training and street reliability, rather than just keeping the status quo.  This class will discuss various scenario parameters that produce identifiable deficiencies in both K-9 and handler performance.  Improvement scenarios can then be worked to extinguish unwanted K-9 behaviors and improve handling skills, and both will improve performance reliability as a team.

Special Presentation by the United States Secret Service.

“K9 Interdiction” 

& 

“Training and Certifying K9 teams on Fentanyl” 

 The Pacific Northwest Police Detection Dog Association is excited to announce Detective Gary Hadden of the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department will be presenting K9 Interdiction Investigations and Imprinting of Fentanyl Odors on Narcotic Detection Canines during the Annual K9 Detection Conference May 21st and 22nd 2025, in Pasco WA. With the rising threat of Fentanyl in our communities the association is proud to be supporting this much needed training for our canine teams.

Instructor Bio:    Detective Gary Hadden is currently a Criminal Interdiction Unit K9 handler and Trainer for the Indianapolis Metro Police Department and is also a Task Force Officer for Homeland Security Investigations. Detective Hadden started his career in Broward County Florida in 1990 and became a K9 handler in 1995. Hadden has worked many interdiction details in South Florida, including the Blue Lightning Task Force, Multi-jurisdictional counter drug task force and Broward County Pipe-Line Task Force. Hadden has worked multiple canines (Patrol, Narcotics and Bomb) over his twenty-nine-year k9 career and has been on thousands of deployments. Detective Hadden Joined the Marion County Sheriff’s Department, Indiana in 1998 which later merged to become the current Indianapolis Metro P.D. Hadden has been training k9 teams for many years and continues to be the head trainer for IMPD’s Narcotic detection, Cadaver, missing persons, and Arson dog teams. Hadden is also a certified instructor through the Drug Interdiction Acceptance Program-El Paso Intelligence Center (DIAP-EPIC) and teaches k9 and interdiction courses throughout the Nation. Detective Hadden continues to run a parcel interdiction program at the FedEx Hub at the Indianapolis Airport, where drugs and drug trafficking proceeds in the millions have been seized. Detective Hadden has been imprinting and training canine teams for the detection of Fentanyl and has given presentations on the imprinting and training on Fentanyl detection and court testimony. 

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