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     Todd Mona is a Sergeant/K9 Handler for the East Hartford Police Department in Connecticut.  He is the founder and lead trainer of the Capital Region Police K9 Academy and the Capital Region K9 Training Group.  Todd has been a Police Officer since 2002 and in K9 since 2006.  After working his first dog K9 Primo from 2006 until 2015, Todd raised and trained his second dog from ten weeks old until present, K9 Casus Belli.  In 2014 Todd earned his Connecticut Police Work Dog Association Trainer and in 2022 he earned his North American Police Work Dog Association Trainer.  Over the years Todd has been involved in numerous high risk deployments including three officer involved shootings where he was able to get criminal apprehensions with his dogs in two incidents.   Todd offers a real life approach and scenario based training to his group and others, utilizing a broken down step by step process to help the dogs forward progression and avoiding regression or lingering training scars.  

      Aside from running Police K9 academies, Todd has instructed at Hold The Line Conference, Georgia Police K9 Foundation Workshop, Massachusetts Police Work Dog Association and held several seminars in Connecticut including, E-Collar, Decoying and his building search class titled 'Increasing Hunt Drive While Expanding The Building Search'.  Recently Todd, Justin Rigney, Southern State K9 and Eric Good held a 'Power and Control' seminar collaborating with the mentioned trainers to bring different approaches to increasing and capping drives when desired.  In September Todd will be instructing at ATK9 in Indiana.  Todd is currently working on a gunfire neutrality and desensitization to back up officers shooting course and an increasing the pressure decoying course.

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• Let's do it again.....lets not!
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• The dog is a location tool
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