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Current Assignments

  • CSP Emergency Services K-9 Unit- Instructor: Play & Food Reward Narcotics Single Purpose Explosives Training, Accelerant Detection, Electronic Storage Detection. Assist in training Bloodhound, Patrol and Fish Game K9 training. In that assignment I am responsible to setup, oversee, teach and document all training for the classes. I average 1,440 hours of direct instruction time each year for new classes. We are also responsible to maintain in-service for all certified teams which add an additional 1,152 hours of instruction time per year.

  • USAR – CTTF-1 Task Force Manger for Wilderness Search component: The Task Force leader of this component is responsible to set up training for team members and coordinate all resources when assigned an actual search.

Relevant Experience

  • Currently – Instructor at the Connecticut State Police K-9 Unit (see current assignments)

  • 2010-2014- Resident Trooper in the Town of Essex. (K-9 Handler, DARE Instructor)

  • 2002-2010 – Patrol K-9 Handler @ Troop I Bethany (patrol work, K-9 patrol and SAR, undercover taskforce work ’01, ’03, ’04 street crimes for “Save our Streets” Task force)

  • 2000-2002 – Patrol Trooper – Troop L – Litchfield

  • 1999- 2000- CSP Training Academy – Recruit/ Trooper Trainee

Education

  • 2015- 176th Bloodhound Training Class – certified K-9 Texas

  • 2015 – 175th Explosives Training Class – certified K-9 Legacy

  • 2013 – DHS/FEMA - USAR Wide Area Search Class

  • 2012 – NPBA Bloodhound Seminar

  • 2010 – Instructor Development Course

  • 2007 – 129th Human Remain Detection and Search and Rescue Class – K9 Schutz

  • 2006 – 121st Patrol K-9 Class – certified K-9 Schutz

  • 2002 – 101st Patrol K-9 Class – certified K-9 Frisco

  • 2000 – Connecticut State Police Training Academy 109th Training Troop

  • 1999 – West Chester University

  • 1994 – Mercy High School

Law Enforcement Training

  • May 7-11, 2001Crime Prevention Training - Connecticut State Police Bureau of Business Development Services - Meriden, CT

  • January 7-11, 2002 Criminal Patrol Drug Enforcement - Institute of Police Technology and Management - University of North Florida - Meriden, CT

  • March 27-30, 2007 Field Training Evaluation Program - State of Connecticut Police Officer Standards &Training Council - Middletown, CT

  • August 2-13, 2010 School Resource Officer - Connecticut State Police DARE Training Center Milford, CT

  • October 22-26, 2012 Resident Trooper Training - Connecticut State Police Training
    Academy Meriden, CT

  • March 11-14, 2013 Violent Crime Behavior Analysis Seminar, Federal Bureau of Investigation, New London, CT

  • April 9-11, 2013 Wide Area Search - Dept. of Homeland Security - FEMA Windsor Locks, CT

  • January 13, 2017 Arson Evidence Class – FBI & Connecticut State Police – New Haven CT

  • October 2014 – June 2015 Rescue Technician Core Certification– Connecticut Fire Academy – Windsor Locks CT

  • June 4, 2015 - ATF Explosive Fundamentals Course - Hanscom Airforce Base MA

  • June 4, 2015 - Medical Preparedness & Response to Bombing Incidents –TEEK – Texas A&M, Middletown, CT.

Certifications

  • July 1999 - Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
    Department of Health

  • March 2000 – Connecticut State Police Training Academy - Trooper

  • May 2002 - Patrol Canine Handler Patrol Canine Handler

  • July 2007 - Search and Rescue K9 Human Remain Detection - New England State
    Police Administrators Conference

  • August 2010- Connecticut State Police DARE Training Center D.A.R.E Instructor

  • October 2011 - O.S.H.A Certified -Occupational Safety & Health Administration

  • June 2015 – Connecticut Police Officer Standards - Trainer Certificate

  • July 2015 – New England State Police Administrators Conference – Trainer Certificate

  • April 2016- ATF Explosives Detection K-9 certification

Relevant Awards and Recognition

  • 2002, 2003, 2005 – Unit Award Citations

  • 2006 – First Female in Connecticut State Police to become a Senior Handler (2nd time handler)

  • 2010 – Connecticut Police Officer of the Year

  • 2014 – First female in Connecticut State Police History to become a member of the Emergency Services Unit as an instructor with the K-9 Unit.

  • 2015 – First Female Connecticut State Police to handle a Bloodhound

  • 2015 – First Female Connecticut State Police to handle an Explosives canine

  • 2016 - World’s leading Expert in Electronic Storage Detection Canines

K-9 Career Uses

  • 736+ K-9 calls for service (still active)

  • 12 Bloodhound deployments

  • 14 + Explosive K-9 (still active)

  • 490 Patrol K9 calls

  • 23 Evidence Recoveries

  • 50 Wanted person tracks

  • 108 Missing person tracks

  • 237 Search & Rescue and Human Remain detection searches

  • 7,540 hours of teaching time as a Certified Canine instructor as of 4/2019

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