Ken Pavlick, the head trainer of Pacific Coast Canine, has over 23 years experience handling, training, and supervising patrol dogs, explosive detector dogs, and narcotic detector dogs.
Ken began his working dog career in the United States Air Force in 1982, where he was a patrol dog handler, explosive detector dog handler, and a narcotic detector dog handler. He eventually advanced to positions as a patrol dog trainer, detector dog trainer and finally, supervisor of a detector dog section.
Ken left the Air Force in 1986, when he became a deputy sheriff for the Riverside County Sheriff's Department in Indio, California. Initially a patrol deputy, Ken was selected to a K9 handler position in 1989, handling a cross-trained patrol/narcotic detection dog. Ken worked as a K9 handler with Riverside County until 1994. While with the Riverside County Sheriff's Department, Ken was one of the first K9 handlers selected to work with Riverside County's Emergency Services Team (SWAT). During this time, he also instructed patrol dog and detection dog handler classes at one of the largest private police dog training schools in the United States.
In 1994, Ken moved to Idaho to begin working for the Canyon County Sheriff's Department. When he started work there, the Sheriff's department had no K9 program. Ken was tasked with starting a K9 program, which continually grew until, in 2003 when Ken left law enforcement, the Canyon County Sheriff's Department K9 unit had grown to 15 teams.
During his 9 years in Idaho, Ken trained numerous dogs and handlers for departments throughout Idaho and the intermountain west. He was also instrumental in creating the Idaho state certification standards for police K9's. Ken continued to gain more knowledge and experience by training with, and being trained by, the most knowledgeable people in the police K9 field. This led to Ken becoming both nationally and internationally recognized as a police K9 trainer and judge.
In 2003, Ken left law enforcement to move to the Pacific Northwest, where he started Pacific Coast Canine, providing dogs and training for patrol and detector dogs for both law enforcement and private entities.
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