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There are many unique places where protection dogs are

needed. Yours could be one of them.

Commercial placement of protection dogs is not commonly looked at by decision makers as they do not see an immediate application. However, in the three decades we have been training and placing dogs, we have seen many situations where placing a highly trained dog in a commercial environment has produced incredibly positive results.

Here are a few applications we’ve seen be successful.

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2. Canines in Hospitals

We here at K9 X-Factor, specialize in hospital security because it has been proven canines have curtailed security issues by ninety percent. Study after study has proven canines are the most effective tool to curtail security issues within hospitals.

Did you know hospitals lead workplace violence more than any other industry? Canines are a proven answer to many issues within the hospital community. At K9 X -Factor we believe canines can make the real difference in Nationwide. Canines being used in this industry have been successfully used in Hospitals on the East Coast for years.
According to many hospitals in the Midwest and east coast, canines have made a noticeable difference in making employees comfortable in emergency rooms and trauma centers within each facility. One security director from the mid-west stated the following “The main thing that would make a facility decide to have canines is the comfort level of employees", “When you get the trauma staff feeling relatively safe, that's a tremendous element when it comes to safety. The psychological value of having canines on the property has a rewarding effect on security.". In another scenario why canines are so effective was from a Southern California hospital.

Since acquiring dogs none of the 11 parking lots have experienced any mugging, robberies, rapes, or assaults despite being one of higher crime areas in San Diego.

Canines were so effective when it comes to getting control of a lobby after a gang incident. The dogs and handlers were very effective in dispersing two opposing gangs in the emergency lobby area. Dogs may appear more frightening than armed security. Within 30 seconds after the dogs arrived on the scene with their handlers you could not hear a pin drop between the two gangs.

Dogs have the advantage because gang members consider getting stabbed or shot a badge of honor but a dog bite is a form of disgrace. All our staff are retired police or military who have the expertise to use dogs effectively. All our dogs are friendly first and only go into protection mode when the need arises. Elderly, children and everyone in between can pet our dogs and we welcome it. Our dogs can be goodwill ambassadors to your hospital but when the need arises will protect your employees and patients. Canines are more effective than standard, armed, and in some circumstances more effective than police. At K9 X-Factor we know canines are the best choice in reducing security issues at your hospital.

3. Canine protection in a retail environment

How do you deter (or lessen) theft in your retail environment while making your customers and employees feel safe? Current surveillance technology can be a great asset to protecting a business. But let’s face it . . . surveillance technology is reactive and passive. The latest technology isn’t mobile and, at best, can only alert the police—not prevent a threat. Retail theft and threats to personal security are rapidly rising.

The statistics speak for themselves:

  • Thefts at CVS are up 30% since the pandemic began.
  • The Coalition of Law Enforcement and Retail estimates that organized retail theft accounts for around $45 billion in annual losses for retailers these days.
  • More than two-thirds (69%) of respondents in the National Retail Security Survey released by the National Retail Federation said they’re seeing an increase in fraud, crime, and overall risk to their organization as a result of COVID-19.
  • Close to 69% of retailers have seen an increase in ORC (organized retail crime) activity in the past year.
  • Almost two-thirds or 65% of respondents noted the increase in violence.
  • And another 37% said ORC gangs were much more aggressive than in the past. (Go to pie chart NRF’s 2021 National Retail Secuirty Sruvey)
  • In the San Francisco Central district, for example, larceny and theft incidents are up almost 88% from a year earlier, and overall crime is up almost 52%, according to police statistics.
  • Surveillance technology is helpful in capturing what happened in the past; it doesn’t help prevent a threat.

Here’s the question: Is there a way to deter or lessen a threat in a proactive way? Retail owners, corporate store managers, property managers, and security directors can use K9 security dogs (also known as K9 protection dogs) and handlers to protect their property in a proactive way—not in a reactive way. K9 security dogs create an increase in the feeling that someone is in an atmosphere of safety for a facility’s customers and employees. They hire unarmed guards, armed guards, and off-duty police officers. Retailers also integrate technology: surveillance cameras and alarm systems. While these technologies are helpful in identifying thieves, do these technologies really help prevent theft in the first place? (Usually, they do not.)

Let’s start with unarmed guards.

  • How well-trained are your front guards?
  • What will your front unarmed guards use to prevent serious thefts from happening?
  • A laptop?
  • A paper notebook?
  • A coffee cup?
  • You see the point I’m making, right?

An unarmed guard has few or no defensive tools to circumvent a serious theft. How effectively are these security approaches working?

Let’s talk about armed guards.

Armed guards have poor hit rates. Even if an armed guard could engage a threat, statistics show that a well-trained police officer has a 17%–43% hit rate. Can you imagine the poor hit rate of armed guards who don’t train nearly as much as professionally trained police officers?

The alternative solution is K9 security dogs with handlers.

K9 security involves using canines to prevent issues from happening by their mere presence, by engaging in behaviors that range from barking at the subject to biting, in the worst-case scenario. The presence of canines also serves as a psychological deterrent to would-be criminals and disgruntled employees. The intruder becomes the prey (instead of the staff or employees becoming the prey). Canine security can replace traditional security measures and equipment, but it doesn’t have to; it can be used as an additional layer of security.

Trained security canines are more effective at securing the premises to which they are assigned than people or machines because of their senses of smell and hearing. They can detect strange noises and unusual odors. When a trained security canine hears or smells gunfire, it can detect the origin of the gunfire more accurately than humans can. In 2010, after spending six years and $19 billion on research to develop better bomb-detecting technology, Pentagon officials admitted that dogs’ noses were still superior to their most sophisticated technology. Additionally, compared with bomb-detecting robots, dogs are more mobile. Surveillance cameras, on the other hand, are stationary, limiting their range of view and the type of activity captured. Steve Edwards, CoxHealth president and CEO, implemented a security strategy using two highly trained German shepherds to help with public safety in the hospital. Edwards said the benefits of the dogs are twofold: “First off, they act as therapy dogs of sorts, putting many people at ease by their mere presence. Secondly, he said the dogs are trained to defend staff and patients if necessary. People kind of understand that a dog won’t back down from a knife or a gun where a person might.” The dogs have been used at CoxHealth for at least the past six months, and Edwards said the return on their investment has been positive, with an appreciable reduction in the number of times people needed to be restrained.

While we wait for statistics related to K9 security and retail theft to be reported . . . Just ask a convicted burglar how dogs can deter theft at a home. An investigative report by KGW8 out of Oregon surveyed 86 inmate burglars. The study concluded that if “a homeowner had a big, loud dog, most burglars would stay away.” According to statistics on the National Center for Biotechnology Information website, canines have effectively reduced crime and violence by 75%–80% in Midwest and East Coast hospitals where they’re used. And “a second study in Yarmouth, Massachusetts, showed a dramatic 80% decrease in commercial break-ins following the first year of a canine unit being on patrol and aggressively addressing the issue of the break-ins.”

Benefit 1: A K9 security team is mobile, highly responsive, and a visual deterrent to any perpetrator. The biggest advantage of having a K9 security team is that it can respond at every level in the “use of force” continuum—in just seconds. Take a look at the use-of-force continuum chart: Fact, one canine can cover as much territory as four to five security guards. Metal detectors, surveillance systems, and the like are great, but they’re passive. The canine can respond up or down the continuum, within seconds, depending on the perpetrator’s actions. Benefit 2: Canines are useful in a wide variety of situations. Security directors and administrators are looking for additional security solutions because the standard protocols aren’t working. Security canines can cover a large space quickly due to their speed and mobility. A thief, who is intent on stealing, can avoid surveillance detection. When things come down to a matter of seconds . . . what will happen? How are you going to counteract the threat? Benefit 3: Security canines are safe to be around. Only one out of every 10 dogs will pass the test needed to work in a variety of social environments. These dogs must accept being pet by a wide range of people and must not react aggressively, but they also must be ready to go into a defensive mode when the situation warrants. K9 teams do not use typical police dogs, which tend to be less social.

You might be wondering about the liability of dogs biting people. The simple answer is these canines won’t bite unless it’s a life-threatening situation. The canines I use in schools, hospitals, and corporations are raised and trained both to be people-friendly and to go into a defense mode as the need arises. Trained security canines are not your typical police dogs, which are trained to be defensive. The security canines my company uses come from Eastern Europe, including the Czech Republic and Slovakia. Most are German shepherds, but some are Belgian Malinois. The dogs from these areas have a solid nerve threshold, and you can rely on them to keep you safe. These dogs have a special temperament that allows them to deal with the public 24 hours a day. The dogs at K9 X-Factor have been tested in all capacities and have nerves of steel. They can be trusted with children and are never bullying or dominant. They have nothing to prove because they know they can handle any security situation that should arise. Retail owners, corporate store managers, property managers, and security directors need to ask one critical question: How do you deter (or lessen) theft in your retail environment while making your customers and employees feel safe? We know surveillance technology is helpful in capturing what happened in the past, but it doesn’t help prevent a threat. Numerous studies have shown how K9 security dogs and handlers can protect property and people in a proactive way—not in a reactive way. Is there a way to deter or lessen a threat in a proactive way? Yes, there is. With K9 security teams