Ron handled three different police dogs during his 26 year career.  Ron and his final partner, Pele, were named the Top Dog and Top Competitor in 1997.  Ron served as the trainer for the Modesto PD’s 14 team dog unit, after he was promoted to sergeant in 2000.  In 2005, Ron was promoted to lieutenant and became the K-9 unit commander.  He continued to serve as the trainer of the unit until he retired in 2011.

Ron is well respected in the K-9 community and has been a member of Western States Police Canine Association for 25 years.  He has  served as the president, secretary and president again for W. S. P. C . A., and served on a committee for California P.O.S.T.  He has taught in conferences across the country and has authored numerous articles featured in Police K-9 Magazine. 

Ron has a passion to take K9 training to a higher level believing in more scenario based trainings that make better and safer teams. 

In his final years of law enforcement he was a detective with the Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit investigating organized crime. 

Early in his career he developed the  Delta Police K9 Unit and served as the lead police dog trainer for the Department for 16 years. 

He is the author of two books, “Dog Training  For Law Enforcement” and “K9 Officers Manual,” and currently working on a  third.

In 1988 Bob was appointed to the B.C. Police Commission’s committee to create minimum police dog training standards for law enforcement agencies in the province of British Columbia.  In 1991 he created and developed the International Police K9 Conference.

He has also authored articles and columns in such periodicals as “Police Magazine”, ”Police K9 Magazine”, “K9 Cop  Magazine”, “Law and Order”, “Police and Security News”, “Finland’s  Rottweiler Magazine”, “The Police K9 Recruiter” and “Offlead Magazine”  from Australia.

In 1994 he created the The Police Dog Home Page on the Internet which has become a standard resource page on the net for law enforcement K9 operations.

He has been working canines since 1999 to include 4 partners of his own.

Billy is a Certifying Official / Instructor in “Patrol” and “Narcotic Detection” with NNDDA (National Narcotic Detector Dog Association) and has instructed in numerous National Conferences. He has also served as a Trial Judge for many competitions to include the K-9 Trials at the Texas Police Games for several years.

Billy has had the opportunity to work with multiple departments in establishing new K-9 programs and/or evaluating their current ones. Billy looks forward to continuing his path in K-9 and the future opportunities it will bring to train with K-9 teams and departments across the Nation.

He worked two dogs on patrol until his recent retirement to join us at Top Dog Police K9 as one of our lead Trainers. Jason brings a wealth of knowledge and loves teamwork. His goal in training is not just to train the dog, but to teach the handler.

Jason has advanced experience in SWAT K9, decoy/agitator, and is a certified POST K9 Evaluator. He was a firearms instructor and a long rifle instructor. His trainings are always well planned out. Jason says, “If you’re not early, you’re late”. 

He has been training K9s and K9 teams throughout the US and most recently Iraq for the past 30 years. Steve’s experience working with multiple agencies both local and federal brings an important understanding of individual department training needs. He is passionate about training teams to their highest level of performance, good is never good enough and his training style reflects that!  Steve believes that just as in canine training, handlers excel best through a positive reinforcement learning environment. Steve is a valued consultant and has assisted in Commanders Course and Tracking Courses.