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DANNY: This week we're going to the Cincinnati Bengals game
to pre-sweep the cars for explosives.
EDDIE: Attagirl.
LUTHER: Security personnel wanted me to search
the Cleveland Browns bus.
SAM: I got a phone call about doing a sweep of the high school
for any type of narcotics.
TIM: You have a total of 500 lockers to search.
KENNY: Start right here and work our way down.
TIM: You're only going to have about 45 minutes to do that in.
KENNY: They have both had their dogs indicate on
the same locker.
TIM: Portable sixto portable four, I need your assistance in
the high school hallway please.
KENNY: My name is Ken Licklider. I own and operate
Vohne Liche Kennels.
We're one of the largest police and military working dog kennels
in the world.
KENNY: Our lives depend on this.
DANNY: We may look like a bike gang but we actually
all carry top security clearances.
SOLDIER: Go, go, go! Get your hands up!
DANNY: We're the best of the best.
SAM: Good boy. Come on.
KENNY: Sammy. SAM: What's up, Ken?
KENNY: Sam Finnegan is the local police K-9 handler from Peru.
You know, Peru PD is ten miles from our front door.
He's up here all the time, he's a good friend.
You know, he takes advantage of having this K-9 facility so
close. How's he doing?
SAM: Af. He's doing good. KENNY: Yeah?
SAM: He's going good. Part of the reason I came out is
North Miami got ahold of me.
KENNY: The school?
SAM: Yeah. I got a phone call, uh, about doing a sweep of
the high school for, uh, any type of narcotics or
anything that may be in there.
Just so the students know that they're not going to be tolerant
to any kind of drugs or anything in the school.
They've got 500 lockers and they, they want it done
all in one period. That's 45 minutes
KENNY: One? SAM: Yeah, one period.
KENNY: We've got to do this search in 45 minutes because
they want to do it with the kids out of the hallways.
We need to get in there, get it done without them knowing.
And being able to go to their locker and perhaps retrieve
something that they might have in it. Do you want some help?
SAM: Yeah, we could do a lot of it. But, uh, if you guys
have got a couple guys you could spare, I mean
KENNY: We'll help you anytime. When, when do you want to do it?
SAM: It looks like they're wanting to do it Thursday, so
KENNY: Thursday.
SAM: Short notice I know, but
KENNY: That's all right. You know, it's commonplace for us
to help the local K-9 handlers.
Normally Sam could do this search by himself,
but he told me they've got 500 lockers.
And they've got to do this entire search during one period.
He needs some help.
How about KC and I, you know, we get a couple of dogs ready,
and we'll come over and help you.
SAM: Yeah, that sounds good.
KENNY: I'm going to take Sam and KC over with their dogs.
And we're going to do some training on some lockers over
at the school that we own on Grissom Air Force Base.
All right, buddy. Thanks for asking.
SAM: Appreciate it. Hey, thank you.
KENNY: All right.
SAM: That's a good boy. Good boy.
DANNY: Are we ready? EDDIE: Yes sir.
DANNY: Have you guys picked some dogs for this Bengals game?
EDDIE: I've got three. I need to pick two.
DANNY: All right. EDDIE: So I'll have a backup.
DANNY: This week we're going to the Cincinnati Bengals game.
Our job is to pre-sweep the cars for explosives.
We're going to be searching hundreds of cars.
So let's run them on some cars and see how they do.
EDDIE: All right.
LUTHER: Vohne Liche Kennels has had a working relationship with
the Cincinnati Bengals for at least eight years.
You know, we like to rotate the dogs that we take down to the
Cincinnati Bengals game.
So it's very important that we select the proper dog.
DANNY: So are you a Bengals fan?
EDDIE: Oh yeah, you know that. You're going to give me
[CENSORED] the whole time, aren't you?
DANNY: No. EDDIE: Yeah you are.
DANNY: Just because this is a sport that the players dress in
spandex and not a fire resistant suit is I don't hold none of
that against you.
I'm not a real big sports guy, unless the sport
involves a motor. All right, let's see these dogs.
EDDIE: All right.
DANNY: What we look for in the dogs that we take are dogs that
have a lot of endurance.
Because we, we search a lot of cars there at the gate.
Secondly, they've got to be super social, 'cause
there's a lot of people, a lot of activity around that gate.
Lastly we need a dog that won't jump up on the cars,
'cause these are high dollar cars that are coming through
the gates.
We've got about, what, about 25 cars out here.
I want you to start down on that end.
Work your way up this way.
You'll search about 15, 20 cars before he gets to
the grey Jeep down there.
That's going to be your first loaded one.
I want to make sure that they stay in the game,
they don't get bored. Let's rock it out.
DANNY: Come here. Hi bubs.
LUTHER: See, you see that right there?
You see how he's nibbling?
DANNY: When we brought Darko out, the dog came straight up
to me and he nipped at my hand.
LUTHER: He starts nibbling like that, that's not going
to be good for us.
DANNY: If Darko would do that to one of the Bengals fans,
it could be a big liability, and our reputation goes to(CENSORED)
EDDIE: Check here. Yeah, good boy.
DANNY: He's got a lot of energy, doesn't he?
EDDIE: Yeah, good boy. Here.
LUTHER: Oh, he just jumped up on the boat.
DANNY: I don't think he'll slow down.
LUTHER: Jumping up on people. EDDIE: Yeah.
DANNY: His energy's nice. I don't like the way he jumps up
on people. And I don't like the way he jumps up on cars.
EDDIE: Right.
DANNY: I just, I want to be able to come up and pet them,
and see how they act.
See, he doesn't pay any attention to me.
That's, that's super important, that they're super social,
and they don't give a [CENSORED].
This is the demeanor that I want.
DANNY: Look at that dog search. EDDIE: Yep.
LUTHER: Working them seams. EDDIE: Good boy. Here, here.
LUTHER: You know, Roxy looked great,
until he hopped up on a couple of the older trucks.
You know, one thing that Eddie can do to fix that problem is
don't search as slow.
As long as you give that dog something to do and keep it
moving, he's not going to jump up on the vehicle.
DANNY: If that [CENSORED] dog scratches a car here,
we not only buy a paint job, we lose that contract.
LUTHER: Oh, right yeah absolutely.
EDDIE: Yeah.
DANNY: He's got the drive, he hunts a car awesome.
EDDIE: Oh ho ho ho ho ho.
DANNY: But I'm telling you, when he went up on that other car
over there, man I can't have that.
LUTHER: You know, it seems to me Eddie,
he was doing that on the taller vehicles.
EDDIE: Right.
LUTHER: So when you get to a bigger vehicle like that,
just work him faster.
EDDIE: Got you. DANNY: All right?
EDDIE: Yep. DANNY: Next dog.
DANNY: Hi baby girl. Hi baby girls, how are you, huh?
Hi girl. What a little sweetie.
EDDIE: Yep.
DANNY: Both Darko and Roxy are kind of shaky.
So let's hope this last dog's a for sure thing.
EDDIE: Here. LUTHER: Good.
EDDIE: Yeah. Good girl. DANNY: Oh, she hunts nice too.
LUTHER: Yeah she does. I think the pace that Eddie's
working this dog, you know, if he works Roxy at that pace,
I don't think the dog's going to have an opportunity to jump up.
DANNY: She's keeping up with it. And see how she went up?
She went up to smell high, but she didn't put her
feet on anything.
LUTHER: Right.
EDDIE: Oh yeah. Bleib. That's my baby.
DANNY: I think Roxy and Aika are the two dogs
we're going to take.
Just work Roxy a little bit more,
and make sure we get that problem fixed.
Let me know if it doesn't, all right?
I'm not worried about Aika.
But there's some more work that needs to be done with Roxy
before I'm comfortable with taking him to the Bengals game.
Cool.
EDDIE: Back in the truck, bubs. Come on.
KENNY: We're going to take Sam and KC over to the high school
that we own on Grissom Air Force Base and
do some locker searches.
KC: Randall School is an old school that VLK owns.
Right now all that it's used for is, uh, training the dogs up.
And we do a lot of locker searches also.
KENNY: I, I think the biggest problem with lockers are the
fact that to the dog it looks like one wall with a bunch of
bumps.
You want them to work these louvers,
and you've just got to pay attention.
KC: I've been training dogs at VLK full time for about
two years now.
And this is going to be my first live search in the field.
This high school that we're going to is actually the one
that I graduated from.
I don't really want to go back to it,
I didn't like high school when I was in it.
I'm a little nervous about it.
So we'll just have to see how it goes.
KENNY: Stay confident and keep, keep the pace going. Okay?
To do this search effectively KC and Sam are going to have
to scan the lockers.
When you search you either detail or scan.
If you're detailing it's going to be slow and methodical.
Scanning is when you send the dog into a general area and you
don't like pinpoint an exact spot. All right.
Head on out and I'll, I'll hide them.
During this training session I'm going to put the drugs in
two different lockers.
KC: Hey, come on. [COMMANDS DOG]
KENNY: Keep moving. Keep moving. There it is. Boom.
KC: Oh yeah, bleib.
KENNY: Hey, what do you think you did wrong right here?
KC: What do you think I did wrong?
KENNY: Yeah. You bent down and went right at it.
When you want to scan you want to make it to where it's
oblique, where it's, where it's just a general area.
You got too close.
KC: Yeah.
KENNY: So she kind of focused a lot.
KC: Okay.
KENNY: When he went to scan he bent down and scanned right at
the first locker.
That's not a scan, that's a detail.
Even though he did the scanning motion,
he went too close to the locker.
That tells the dog, hey, I'm putting something right here.
KC: Ready? Come on.
KENNY: Come on, you got to get past it.
Keep her moving. Keep her moving.
She's searching great. Keep her moving.
KC: Here girl. Here girl.
KENNY: I'd rather get more speed. And watch for keep
her moving. Keep her moving. Wham. [LAUGHS]
KC: That's my baby.
KENNY: Oh ho ho. [LAUGHS]
KC: There you go baby, there you go.
KENNY: Oh. Wow, that's a sweetheart.
KC: Yeah. KENNY: That's a sweetheart.
KC: Come on.
KENNY: That's a sweetie, ain't you?
You're going to find a lot of dope, ain't you?
There is pressure on KC , you know,
going back to his old high school.
He knows people there.
The 45 minute constraint, 500 lockers.
And he's got his dad with him.
This is going to be a tough one for him.
LUTHER: You know, today's going to be a real exciting day.
We're going to go to Paul Brown Stadium,
the home of the Cincinnati Bengals and conduct some
explosive detection searches.
The atmosphere around the Bengals games, it's electric.
It's a fun atmosphere to work in.
FEMALE: Can we pet your dog? LUTHER: You can pet her.
FEMALE: What's his name? Or her name?
LUTHER: Her name's Aika. MALE: Aika.
LUTHER: Yep. MALE: What breed is she, man?
LUTHER: She's a Belgian Malinois.
Before we started to have Aika working the cars I wanted to
take her out and let her mingle with some of the fans.
Let her interact, let her know that all these people weren't
there to hurt her.
So it wasn't going to affect her job.
You know, Eddie's one of our trainers.
And he's primarily going to do most of the work at
the Bengals game.
EDDIE: Hey, hey, here, come on.
DANNY: When you're running a drug dog you're always hoping
that you find something.
When you're running a bomb dog you hope you never find
anything.
EDDIE: Attagirl.
LUTHER: You know, our goals for today is that one,
the dogs don't tire out, and they're able to search all
the cars properly.
Two, they don't jump up on any cars.
And three that they're highly social to any fans that might
they encounter, that want to pet them.
LUTHER: How many cars has she done so far?
EDDIE: She's done about 50 so far.
LUTHER: Yeah? What about the cheerleaders?
EDDIE: The cheerleaders already went in.
LUTHER: They did? EDDIE: Yeah.
LUTHER: Aw.
FEMALE: You should have gotten up earlier.
EDDIE: Eight, about eight o'clock.
LUTHER: [CENSORED]
DANNY: Aika is starting to look a little bored with searching
all these cars and not finding anything.
So we have a little trick that we use to keep her motivated.
We're going to take an explosive device and place it on a car.
This is like halftime for Aika.
And I not only want to motivate her, but I also want to test her
and make sure she's on her game.
EDDIE: Good girl. Yeah, mama.
DANNY: Those little sport hides like that are, are golden.
They're they really help the dogs keep their momentum up, and
LUTHER: Absolutely. DANNY: They get bored.
LUTHER: Yeah.
DANNY: Blank car after blank car after blank car.
LUTHER: Oh yeah. DANNY: So
LUTHER: Yep. Absolutely.
DANNY: Aika did great with the training aid,
exactly like she's supposed to.
So I don't see any problems here at all.
She can go back out on the gate and keep on rocking.
EDDIE: Yeah, baby.
DANNY: Searching her *** off now, isn't she?
EDDIE: Yes.
LUTHER: Hey Eddie, Danny and I are going to split off,
we're going to grab the spare dog.
I think the, uh, opposing team's bus is coming in.
LUTHER: You know, somebody from the security personnel came
up to me and wanted me to search the bus that was hauling
the Cleveland Browns on.
DANNY: Yeah, I can see them now.
Wait until the players get off the bus,
and then we'll search the, the bus.
LUTHER: Roxy had that issue when we were training
of jumping up on vehicles.
Eddie assures me that he hasn't jumped up on one since.
But I'm a little nervous to make sure this dog doesn't jump up on
one of these buses.
LUTHER: Okay. Good boy. Come on. Good boy. [COMMANDS DOG]
Good boy. Come on. Good boy, Roxy.
This dog didn't show any change in behavior, brother.
You're good.
DANNY: All right. Let's get out of here.
SECURITY: All right.
LUTHER: Overall it was a great day.
None of the dogs jumped up on any of the cars.
The dogs were social with all the fans that came up.
You know, the extra work you put on him,
he didn't even think about jumping up, Eddie. So good job.
I'm psyched with the way that Aika and Roxy performed today.
When we come to do these types of jobs, you know,
our goal is not to find anything.
So I'm really happy with how it turned out today.
Enjoy the game, brother.
EDDIE: Absolutely, it's Who Dey time.
LUTHER: Hell yeah.
KC: This high school that we're going to today is actually
the one that I graduated from.
So it's kind of some mixed emotions going on here.
But then again, it is my first live search,
so I'm looking forward to it.
TIM: Hi KC, how are you doing?
KC: How you doing, Mr. Garland?
TIM: I'm glad to see you're doing very well.
KC: Thank you.
TIM: Nice to see, uh, one of our fine young men come back.
KC: It was good seeing Mr. Garland again on
better circumstances.
Normally when I saw him I was in a little bit of trouble.
TIM: You have a total of 500 lockers to search.
The big importance there is we're going to have about 45
minutes to 50 minutes to do that in.
KENNY: We've got to do this search in 45 minutes because
they want to do it with the kids out of the hallways.
We need to get in there and get it done without them knowing and
being able to go to their locker and perhaps retrieve something
that they might have in it.
TIM: We do not have a drug issue here, but one reason why
we do not have a drug issue is because we have a no
tolerance for drugs. SAM: Right.
TIM: And alcohol and tobacco, things like that.
TIM: We want our students to feel safe and secure here
at school.
And if drugs are involved they can't get that great education
that we're trying to provide for them.
TIM: All students will go into a complete lockdown.
So they're locked in their rooms.
KENNY: The high school is going to go into a lockdown.
They're going to shut the kids up in,
in their classes and make sure they don't come out.
It's a tactic used in many high schools,
so that we can get through the hallways and get the search done
without the kids being involved.
So it's really important that we get this done in between
the two bells.
TIM: Students and staff, at this time we are going to go
ahead and do a lockdown.
Staff, please go ahead and lock your doors and keep your
students in your rooms.
Once again, staff, lock your doors and continue teaching.
I will notify you when this is complete. Thank you.
KENNY: Sam, if you'll take that hallway,
we'll head this way.
We've got 45 minutes to finish this.
SAM: Okay. KENNY: You ready to do it?
SAM: Oh, we're ready. KENNY: Let's do it.
KC: Okay.
KENNY:Let's head this way, Kace. KC: Come on, mama.
KENNY: We split up and we took a hallway on the south side.
Start right here and work our way down.
KC: Hey, you ready. [COMMANDS DOG] There you go, there you go.
KENNY: Nice search. There you go.
She's all right, she's all right.
KC: Okay.
KENNY: Work it down to the end and come back this way.
My son, he's confident, so I knew he'd go in there
and do well.
But this was his first search, so I wanted to be there for him.
You know, we've only got 45 minutes to get all 500 of
these done.
She's searching, there you go. Look at her check. Okay.
KC: Come on baby, come on.
KENNY: And you need to pick your pace up a little bit.
Make sure she's working. When you back, scan back, okay?
KC: Hey Cindy, come on.
KENNY: Keep moving a little ways, there you go.
KC did well, but it was his first time.
He's got to understand that his job is to watch,
make sure that dog is searching.
When he sees that he's not working,
it's his responsibility to reverse the dog or step in,
detail a little bit, get the dog excited.
KC: Hey baby, come here. Cindy. Cindy.
As I was doing that search, I was keeping my eye on the clock.
KENNY: Good. Nice job.
KC: I just need to make sure that I'm properly handling
the dog, and doing my best.
SAM: Check here. KC: Yeah, baby. Check here.
KENNY: We got near the end of the search and the dog really
banged a locker.
It was a really strong hit, so we're confident that he hit on
something.
KENNY: Oh. KC: There you go, baby girl.
KENNY: You always want to make sure.
So while KC: finishes up the other lockers,
I'm going to go grab Sammy. I won't tell him anything.
We'll see if his dog hits on the same locker.
KENNY: Nice hit.
TIM: Portable six to portable four,
I need your assistance in the high school hallway please.
KENNY: Sammy's dog confirmed KC'*** on the exact
same locker.
So now Principal Garland's going to go in and do the search and
see what he comes up with.
TIM: We'll bring authorities in if we have to.
SAM: There you go.
KENNY: We're here at North Miami High School doing a
narcotics search on the lockers.
She's searching, there you go.
KC and Officer Sam Finnegan have both had their
dogs indicate on the same locker.
We've informed the principal, and we're preparing for a
search.
TIM: What we typically do is, Sam you know this one,
is we go through pamphlets, look for residue, look for
anything major at the beginning. No weaponry.
KENNY: Odors are affected by the hallways.
It makes the odor move, it spreads out.
Depending on how long it's been in a certain locker
it can actually affect the lockers on each side of it.
And the industry standard is if a dog sits on one locker you
search one to two on both sides.
TIM: You want to have the dog take a look at this backpack and
see if there's anything?
KC: Hey, hey, check here. Nothing there.
TIM: Pretty basic locker search.
I didn't find anything in the locker, so we're good to go
with that student.
KENNY: Okay.
TIM: So now what I'll do is, since we do have to search all
lockers, I'm going to start bringing the students out.
I'm going to ask you guys to step out.
SAM: Principal Garland's going to pull the kids out and do some
more thorough searching.
We do these school searches as a proactive preventative measure,
so kids will know not to bring drugs into the schools.
KENNY: This is just a good policy to let the kids know
we have the capability.
SAM: You know, my kids go here. KENNY: Right.
SAM: I graduated from here, KC: graduated from here.
KENNY: We finished the search. We did 500 lockers in 45 minutes
That's not an easy task. The dogs did what we asked them.
What exactly they found, that's going to stay between
the principal and the students.
Once the dog indicates, our job is done.
KENNY: Good job with the dogs. TIM: Yes, excellent job.
SAM: Thank you. KENNY: Nice job.
TIM: I appreciate it.
KENNY: All right, so we're out of here.
KENNY: I'm really proud of my son.
This is his first live search, and we happened to do it
at his old high school. A lot of pressure.
And he did a really good job with his dog.
Any time you want us to do any school.
SAM: Right.
KENNY: Just give us a holler.
SAM: Well, you know I appreciate it.
That's the good thing about having you right down the road.
KENNY: Right.
KENNY: Right, I mean we're right here.
That's good community relations, it gets our dogs out into
different places.
SAM: Gets you away from the kennel, too. [LAUGHS]
KENNY: Gets me away from that, from sitting with my feet up on
that desk.
KENNY: Yeah. KC: Hey, how's it going?
KENNY: Going good, how you doing?
KC: Doing good. KENNY: What's going on?
KC: What do you think about the school search?
KENNY: That was good. That was cool, huh?
KC: Yeah, I felt like it went pretty well.
KENNY: Were you nervous?
KC: I really wasn't that nervous.
I mean, handling a dog is handling a dog.
KENNY: I'm talking about going back to your alma mater.
Going back to your high school.
KC: Oh yeah, I never like going back there. I mean
KENNY: Well, good job buddy. KC: Thank you.
KENNY: To have my son come in and work with me,
it goes back to when I was 19.
To see him out there doing the same things I did,
it's a good feeling.
Over the past couple of months you've thought about
whether you wanted to stay here or not.
I think you made the right decision, buddy.
And I hope getting into these searches and getting to do a
little bit more you know, has, has shown you that you did.
KC: I'm obviously glad that I stayed too.
KENNY: Every father wants his son to follow in his footsteps.
And for the longest time I didn't see KC doing that.
His interests were more into hunting, fishing.
But now I'm starting to see a little more interest in him.
I'm starting to see him kick in a little harder,
and it's a great feeling.
It'd be nice to know that he'd want to take over this business
and, and take it further than what I did.
You know, our basic job is knuckle dragging, you know,
training dogs.
But there is a lot of fun to it too, so good job buddy.
All right?
KC: Thank you.
KENNY: Hey. All right, I'm going back to work.
KC: Hey hey.
KENNY: Hey. We ready to tune them up?
KC: We're going to try to. This wind's a little crazy today.
But we'll see what we can do.
KENNY: Since KC did such a great job this week entering
my world and learning what I do, I thought I'd enter into his
world and do some bow shooting with him and the guys.
I'm not sure if my arm will hold it.
KC: If you don't shoot that, and like you want to get it off
your hands, I will buy that off of you.
I got rid of mine, and I love that bow.
KENNY: What are you going to buy it with? Your dowry?
KC: I don't [CENSORED] know. Why do we got to get into that?
I'll figure something out.
DANNY: Why do we got to get into that?
KENNY: You brought it up. KC: Light it up!
LUTHER: Right there. Ha ha. KENNY: Ha hey!
KC: Hey, you were in the circle. You missed.
I've got another target here that we're going to test out.
KENNY: Okay.
KC: Let's see if you can hit this. It's a little bit smaller.
KENNY: Oh, I'll hit it. Just put it out there.
KC: Is that good? Can you hit that?
KENNY: Do you want me to shoot behind my back at that or what?
LUTHER: Oh boy. KC: Yeah, okay.
KENNY: I'm going for that top one now. You ready?
[explosion]
KENNY: Jesus! [CENSORED] ALL [LAUGH]
What did Oh, oh my god. I about pooped my pants.
What did you do?
KC: Oh, just a little exploding target, you know.
KENNY: KC pulled a trick on me. It was a good one.
Don't mess with Pop.
KC: Oh yeah, don't mess with Pop.
KENNY: All right hey, let's get out of here.
All in all it was a great week.
The Bengals game went really well.
KC: got his first shot at doing an actual search.
And I blew some [CENSORED] up. I mean, what's better than that?