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>> We have Mr. Kevin Good.

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He's a senior research engineer
from Battelle in Columbus,

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one of our performers.

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And then we also have Mr. Cliff
Deutsch from Command Canine.

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So Kevin will speak
first a little bit.

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We'll hand it over to Cliff.

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You know, they're going
to talk about our state

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and local outreach that we're
working a couple of the efforts.

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But you know, Kevin, as we said,

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we've got the scientist
engineer test evaluation

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and then we've got, you know,
Cliff is one of our, you know,

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stakeholders and provides
a good grounding for us,

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because what we feel is
unique with this program.

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As we match, you know, the
scientists, the engineers,

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the smart folks, and embed

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and really match our subject
matter experts with that.

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Because if we're not doing
something that isn't beneficial

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to the guys at the other end
of the leash, then, you know,

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it's science for science sake.

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So that's where we
have a unique melding

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of this within this program.

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And so I think, you
know, some of the things

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about our state and
local outreach.

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And, you know, we know
that you guys have some

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of your own outreach
with state and locals.

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So we want to hear that.

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We want to create more
partnerships, but let's jump in

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and I'll introduce Mr.
Kevin Good to start us.

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>> Thanks, Don.

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Good morning.

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Again, I'm Kevin Good from
Battelle and I'm going

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to be joined up here in a
few minutes by my friend,

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Cliff Deutsch of Command Canine.

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We are contractors to DHS S&T.

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We've been aiding them with
their state and local outreach,

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and that's what we've
been invited

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to talk about here today.

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So I think that given this
audience, we can agree

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that the detection canine is a
demonstrated effective resource.

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Right. However, I also believe
that there are a lot of state

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and local teams out there

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that don't have an
extensive support network.

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They don't always have
access to the latest tools,

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techniques, and knowledge.

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And so as a result, in 2017 Don,
Cliff, and I, and a small group

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of other providers
started to roll

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out these regionally
based events.

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I say regionally based because
we go out to the canine teams.

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So these regionally
based events for state

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and local law enforcement
canine teams where we're working

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to share some of that latest
and greatest information

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and knowledge with them.

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We're looking to put
them through their paces,

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through some testing,
but in most importantly,

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we're there because we want to
work with them, engage them,

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and understand their needs.

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And so the program is referred
to as REDDI, which stands

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for the Regional Explosive
Detection Dog Initiative.

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We've got a number of objectives
for REDDI, and a couple

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of those are listed here.

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As I said on the
first slide, again,

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we want to establish
relationships with our state

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and local canine teams in
order to understand their needs

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in order to understand
their challenges.

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While we're there, we want
to take the opportunity

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to share some knowledge and
ideas with the canine handlers

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that may allow them to do their
job, either safer or better.

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Continuing that theme we hope

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that the event ultimately allows
them to make small improvements

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in their capabilities
to improve their tactics

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or improve their
awareness of the situation.

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And then finally, you know,
we're there to gather data

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that can be used for the
betterment of the community.

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And so let me expand on that.

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You know, we're trying
to gather that data,

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not just from one dog team
or from one location, right.

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We want to test in South
Florida, but I want to do a test

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out on the West coast and East
coast and in Midwest as well.

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We want to pull together
that aggregate data in order

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to inform future
federal investments

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to best serve these
men and women.

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Okay. So each REDDI event

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for our participating
canine handlers is a two day

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engagement, and we've got a
number of different components

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to each of those events.

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One is classroom instruction.

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So, for example, my
explosive chemist comes

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and he gives a lecture.

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And, no, he doesn't give
detailed chemistry lecture,

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right.

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That's not useful.

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But what he does give
is practical information

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that will allow these men and
women to do their job, again,

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either safer or better.

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So an example would be making
sure that they are comfortable

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in identifying and being
aware of the precursors

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that are associated with common
or popular homemade explosives.

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Right. There is information
available at a scene sometimes

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where the handler
might not even need

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to get the dog out of the truck.

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And we want them
to be aware of that

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and to be able to react to that.

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So we have some, you know, some
useful information sharing.

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We also do odor recognition
trials.

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And we have a picture
here on the left hand side

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of a dog team doing our
odor recognition trials.

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And this is a series
of scent lineups

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where the handler who's blind
to the problem, he does not know

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where we've hidden
any of the targets.

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He and his dog, his canine
partner are attempting

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to identify the location of
any hidden target materials

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in a sea of distracting odors.

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We also conduct a number
of operational scenarios.

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So those target materials
that are

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in that simple odor recognition
trial, where they are

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at different times put into
an operational scenario.

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And we put a lot of
emphasis on realism,

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so we want to use a
relevant target material.

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We want that target
material configured

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or packaged realistically

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and we want it being
used in a viable setting.

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Next, there was a results
sharing element to the event.

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So about halfway
through the second day,

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if I'm a canine team
participating in this event,

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I get a handout and it shows
me all the target materials

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that were present in the
odor recognition trial

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and how my dog, how
my dog and I did

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against those different
materials.

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Additionally, on that same
page, we show the details

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where the operational searches.

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So what target materials
were out there,

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where were they hidden, how were
they configured, and how did we

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as a team do on those targets.

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After that result sharing,

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there's an opportunity
for some training.

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And so again, if I'm a canine
participant, if I'm a handler

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in this event and I
get my results back

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and let's say there was
a material in there,

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ABC that I'm not happy with,

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I thought we should
have been better on it.

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Well that material is available

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for some short imprinting
session.

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And we're not claiming
that we're going to be able

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to resolve any and
all deficiencies

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in a short training session,

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but we can start taking
those first steps together.

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And then finally the handlers
that participate all complete

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for us a pretty in depth
questionnaire where we're trying

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to gather information on
their day to day practices

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and their certification.

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So what materials
are they training on?

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How often are they
training on those materials?

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How are those materials stored?

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How are those materials handled?

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What are their certification
like?

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So trying to gain additional
insights to the day to day,

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you know, activities
of these canine teams.

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Okay. So to date we have
completed 15 of these events,

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and as soon as this event is
over Cliff and I are hopping

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on a plane and heading
to Fort Worth, Texas,

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because we've got number
16 happening this week.

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But through those 15
events that we've completed,

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we've had access or involved
over 200 participants.

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Those participants have span
85 different departments

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and we've amassed over
5,000 blind target exposures

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between the odor
recognition trials and all

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of the operational scenarios.

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We have over 5,000 data
points on targets alone.

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Now in an open forum I can
always share, you know,

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some of our findings I had
and even then at a high level,

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but here they are, you
know, this in my, you know,

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I've been serving this
community for a long time

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and I think it has a reputation
of being closed minded.

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But we haven't seen that.

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Like the handlers
that we're dealing

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with that are participating
in this had been really open

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and eager for challenging
and progressive training

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and testing scenarios.

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Right. They want to
challenge their dog,

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they want to challenge
themselves,

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because they want to do better.

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And so we've encountered
a lot of men and women

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that are very open to new ideas
and to push in the limits.

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And so that's the
first finding there

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that the community I think
is eager for information

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and for progressive

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and challenging training
concepts and problems.

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Unfortunately, our routine
training doesn't always reflect

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real world problems.

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Right. These hide, or these
scenarios that are easy

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and convenient to set up because
we need to get a find quickly,

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that doesn't always
translate into the level

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of capability that we need.

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Detection performance does
vary by target material.

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There are some of
these materials

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that are more difficult than
others, meaning that some

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of these materials teams
need to spend more time.

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They need to recognize
that, respect that

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and spend more time, spend
more effort making sure

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that their dog is
good on that material.

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Next, I think that the community
in general would benefit

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from an increased emphasis
on detection threshold.

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Raising that threshold so
they recognize large amounts

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or very odorous hides, but
definitely also lowering

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that threshold too, so that

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if we have an intelligent
adversary who's packaging things

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carefully, trying to
conceal that, trying to lower

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that signature that
our dogs, you know,

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react to that strongly still.

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And then finally, after the
15 events, you know, no city,

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no locale was outperforming
or underperforming the others.

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We have certainly encountered
some innovative training tactics

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that some of the
departments are using.

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And then we're, you
know, we're sharing

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that with the subsequent events.

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Okay. So now that we've
conducted 15 of these events

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and we've amassed, you know, a
little bit of a dataset, again,

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the key was not no knee
jerk reaction based off

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of a single team or
a single location.

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Let's get a quality data set
here and look for real trends.

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But now that we were starting
to get that sizable dataset,

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and we want to move to sharing
the aggregated knowledge

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and data set with the law
enforcement community.

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So we're exploring avenues
and REDDI, you know,

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future REDDI events might
be one of those avenues,

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but exploring avenues to
disseminate the information

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to the state and
local authorities.

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Again, now that we've got a
larger dataset we can start

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doing some statistical analysis

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to inform those future
investments.

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So what should the federal
government be investing in,

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in order to best serve
these men and women?

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And then we're also continuing
with the REDDI events.

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We want to incorporate feedback
that we get from each event.

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You know, we want
to take away things

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that could maybe could've made

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that event better
or more relevant.

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So we do adjust to handler
feedback when appropriate.

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We want to continue our
educational efforts.

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I mentioned that I have my
chemist that gives a lecture.

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I also give a lecture.

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I have some examples with
me of a leave behind booklet

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that we're going to
leave with the handlers

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so they hear my briefing
and then they get a booklet

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that kind of parallels that.

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And so if they're not able to
absorb all that information

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in the, you know, the 90 minutes
they're sitting in front of me,

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they got that quick reference
booklet with them at all times.

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By continuing the REDDI events,
we hope to gain more diversity

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into the dataset, right.

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The more teams that we
get, the better snapshot

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of the entire community
that we're going to get.

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And then we always have
the option of phasing

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in new target materials
and variations

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of those target materials as we
try to gain additional insight

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on how to best serve
this community.

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And with that, actually
that's all my slides.

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And I want to turn it over
to Cliff, so he can speak

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from an operator's perspective.

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[ Applause ]

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>> Good morning.

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My name is Cliff Deutsch.

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I'm a retired special
operations canine sergeant

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for a large agency
in Southwest Florida.

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My background mainly is
highway drug interdiction.

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Even though I went
through patrol tracking,

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apprehension school.

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Obviously working in South
Florida, you can imagine

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with two main corridors we're
very busy on that aspect

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of the canine detection teams.

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Throughout my years
I was responsible

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for regional training.

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We're a very large agency, so
we supported highway patrol

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and other state and
local canine units.

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During that time I realized the
challenges that we're facing,

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and drug dogs we're
proven every day.

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You know, we're stopping cars,
we're seizing contraband,

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we're going to Federal Express,
UPS, other delivery services.

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But where the gap I saw was
the explosive community.

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And starting my canine
career in 1991 or 1992,

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as we evolved I saw
further and further problems

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with explosive detections.

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Move forward 25 years I
bumped into Mr. Roberts.

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I think it was Miami,
South Florida somewhere.

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And I saw what he had.

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And I saw the expertise
he had from a chemistry,

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from a science, from an
engineering standpoint,

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something that we don't have in
the law enforcement community.

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We just don't have those
resources available to us.

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And I started talking
to Mr. Roberts.

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And I'm like, sir, with all
due respect, we need help.

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And we as canine
operators, canine trainers,

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and canine managers
have to take a step back

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and realize when we need help.

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We travel around the country.

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We go around the world
that we see rock star teams

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in our own little world.

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When we come in from a
third party standpoint

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with the operation REDDI
event, teams struggle

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and they're challenged,
because we push them beyond

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that training venue that
they're used to doing.

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And I was at fault for that.

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As I learned and I learned to
deal with the cartel family

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in South Florida from
California, or Texas,

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in order to succeed
we have to fail

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and in our community
we struggle with that.

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There's nothing wrong with that.

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We're very protective
of our teams.

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We're very protective our dogs.

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We're very protective
of our handlers.

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I get it. But we're
doing a disservice.

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Through Don's program, through
Operation REDDI event we

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challenge the participants,

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but we also provide corrective
measures if they need it.

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We have a chemist.

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We have several chemists
on staff

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that obviously I'm
not a chemist.

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Amazing. In 10 years that
I worked in Don's program,

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it's helped me understand why
my dog can do what they do.

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Why they can't do what they do.

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The engineers that from
a science side as well

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and now working with, you know,
the genetics and genomics,

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it gives us a better
understanding

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to better serve our community.

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The criminal element
is evolving every day.

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We have to take that
step one step further

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and evolve our own community.

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We have to challenge
ourselves, challenge our dogs.

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We can't do simple hides.

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We have to do threat-based
hides.

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And what we've seen
in this REDDI event,

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the teams are very
good at what they do

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when in a controlled
environment.

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When we bring in that criminal
element, we put a threat device

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out made from the same
composition of a training aid,

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teams are struggling out there.

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That's not good.

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It's not good for our families,
our loved ones or our community.

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So with Don's support and
Don's supporting expertise

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from a chemist and a science
and an engineer's standpoint,

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we're helping state and
local law enforcement.

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There's other programs out
there like Mr. Roberts said,

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but we feel that we're
listening to the end user.

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It's not me, Cliff Deutsch
going to California say, hey,

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this is how you have
to do things.

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We're listening to their
gaps, their weaknesses,

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their vulnerabilities.

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We're putting our
expertise together,

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either from a chemist
standpoint or a science

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or from a canine standpoint,
and we're helping them.

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We're helping them beat these
gaps, these vulnerabilities,

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because at the end
of the two day event,

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Operation REDDI event, the teams
do progress and they get better.

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It's with that chemistry
and that science side

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that we don't have, again from
a law enforcement standpoint.

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And like Mr. Good said,
we're in 16, 17 cities now,

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or regions of the country.

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We need to expand that
presence, because there's a lot

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of agencies, the
onesies, the twosies.

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You know, I come
from a large agency

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and there's a lot more other
bigger agencies out there,

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but the boots on the ground
don't have the resources

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we have.

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And that's where I
see the S&T being

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that federal focal point
that's needed out there.

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>> With that being
said, we have to know

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who the end user,
our customer is.

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And I'm kind of put

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in situations sometime
that are challenging.

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The chemist, we have to make it
understandable for guys like me.

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Hey, I went to school
four years,

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did the criminal justice degree,
but I'm not a chemist and we are

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so challenged in the law
enforcement community,

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in the vendor community,
because we're doing more

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with less nowadays.

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So to have the support
from an S&T, from a chemist

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and a scientist who
are very passionate,

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and that's why I
look at operators.

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We're very passionate
for what we do.

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Some people might say we
have anger management issues.

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No, it's a 24/7 job.

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You can't, your dog doesn't go.

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It's your responsibility.

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You're on 24 hour a day call, so
we're tired, we're overworked.

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And with the support of S&T,

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we're able to beat
the criminal element,

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because they have all day
long to build these hides

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and build these threat devices.

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We have seconds.

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We have to respond in
a second to a threat,

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and we have to make a decision
from an operator standpoint,

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are we going to shut
this terminal down?

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Are we going to evacuate
a large crowd gathering,

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a sporting event because
of our dogs indication

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of presence of explosives.

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That's a lot of responsibility
on a male or female

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out there handling a dog.

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Murphy's law has it you might
get a hit your first day out,

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right out of class.

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That's happened before.

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So you have to have that
confidence level and you have

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to have credibility,
reliability.

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With S&T support from the
chemist and the science side,

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we give that to the law
enforcement community.

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They don't have it.

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So I think it's important

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that we build our program
bigger than we are.

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I think we need your help
and your input doing it,

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but you have to come off of
this we don't have any gaps

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and weaknesses.

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We do. I'm telling you we do,
because the criminal elements

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out there they have,
again weeks and months

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to develop something, years.

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And we have seconds and
minutes to stop that threat.

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So with that being
said, I really want to,

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you know, I'm humbled.

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I know a lot of faces
in the crowd,

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wealth of experience out there.

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Working with S&T and
having the opportunity

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that Mr. Roberts has given me
has made me better understand

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how I can serve our community.

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And when we go to these
REDDI events when I talk

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to the handlers off to the side
and they're not doing as well

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as they're used to
doing, they're asking why.

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I said, because you're training
for your evaluation standards.

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If you train for operational
needs for what that bad guy,

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that criminal element
is going to do,

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your evaluation is
going to be very simple.

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Your certifications
going to be simple.

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And that's where
the REDDI event,

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we're operationally based.

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We don't just put out
normal training aids.

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We take that device
and we put it

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where the criminal
elements going to do.

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And I think that's
the value added

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that S&T gives the community,
whether you're federal,

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state, local, whoever.

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It's a very unique team.

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It's a very passionate team,
and I know personally working

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with each and every one
of the forms of expertise

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that Mr. Roberts has, we
do work very long hours

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and we do take these
REDDI events very serious.

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With Mr. Good's team out there
developing the threats and us

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from a canine standpoint,
when our brothers

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and sisters are struggling,
what are we going to do?

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How are we going to help them?

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And that's where Mr.
Roberts gives us the leniency

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to do that.

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So I'm very appreciative
of the opportunity.

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I'd love to hear from the
operators, the trainers,

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the program managers out there,
what we can do, what we could do

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to support you from
a canine side of it.

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And then I can try to
convey that to the chemistry

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and the science side of it,

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which is at times a
little challenging.

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I will be honest with you there.

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And Mr. Robert's very patient

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from my standpoint
to say the least.

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But we need your input.

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We have the resources to do it.

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Let's do it.

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Because again, the
bad guy's evolving,

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we need to evolve with it.

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So with that, thank you
for the opportunity.

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I really appreciate it.

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And stay safe.

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Thank you.

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