Morrow County Hosts Multi-Department K9 Training/Decoy seminar
By Garrett Christensen on Wednesday, September 28th, 2022 in More Top Stories Northeastern Oregon News
MORROW COUNTY – (Release from the Morrow County Sheriff’s Office) Morrow County Sheriff’s Office hosted a Police K9 and Decoy training seminar on September 9-11, 2022. KnightWatch K9 brought Mark A. Hilger, a prominent police K9 instructor from Nord Rhein Westphalen, Germany to instruct local area K9s and Decoys. Morrow County Sheriff’s Office, Pendleton PD, Union County Sheriff’s Office, and USFWS took part. We greatly appreciate KnightWatch K9 helping us bring such a high-quality training seminar to our region.
Several excellent venues were provided from the old Irrigon Multicultural Arts Center (IMAC building), the Port of Morrow Maintenance yard and a small farm property. During the three days of training at these different locations, training focused on developing handler and decoy skills as well as numerous challenging scenarios and exercises specifically tailored to advance the skills and abilities of each of the K9s present. This intensive and quality training will allow our area K9s to hone skills and better serve our citizens. These specialized teams of officers/deputies and their dogs work in a wide variety of high-risk environments where skills refined in training like that recently delivered are critical to safe and successful outcomes for all involved. We are especially grateful to our co-workers, Deputies Killgore and Brill with the Morrow County Sheriff’s Office and Deputy Vora with the Union County Sheriff’s Office for participating in the training as decoys for the dogs and their handlers.
