Canines in the Courtroom — St. Augustine, FL

A one-day training course focused on bulletproofing drug dog cases and strengthening courtroom defensibility. The course covers recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions and legal updates affecting police K9 deployments.

This training is intended for active law-enforcement K9 handlers and supervisors and focuses on drug dog case articulation and courtroom defensibility, including legal updates, operational application, and documentation practices.

April 23, 2025

8:00 am

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5:00 pm

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About the Canines in the Courtroom training

HITS Training & Consulting is hosting a one-day training course for all Law Enforcement Drug Dog Teams. This 8-hour course is designed specifically to enhance your skills at articulating necessary facts which are important to showing K9 reliability during court proceedings.

What you’ll learn

Ted Daus was a prosecutor in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. He has been a prosecutor for the past 29 ½ years, the last 25 of which he has been assigned to the Drug Trafficking Unit.

Andy’s education and experience with police dog training has steered his career path into developing an industry leading recordkeeping software program called PackTrack. His depth of knowledge and understanding of state and federal laws regarding search and seizure has been an enormous asset to hundreds of K-9 handlers who attend his K-9 training courses.

Andy’s expert opinions on drug dogs and recordkeeping will surely help bring the entire law enforcement K9 industry to a higher level of clarity. His countless court appearances and proven skills as an expert witness on the stand are clear testimony to the effectiveness of proper K9 recordkeeping as a means to establishing K9 reliability.

Instructors

Andy Weiman — With more than 33 years of police experience involving various assignments in specialty drug investigation unit in south Florida, Detective Weiman has become a leading expert in the field. With 27 years of K9 experience since training his first drug dog with Canadian Customs, Andy has gone on to oversee the training of a variety of detector dogs to include teams that can find drugs, currency cell phones, tobacco and firearms.

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Location

St. John's County Sheriff's Office

911 Law Enforcement Way St. Augustine, FL 32092

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Municipal, county, state, federal, and military K9 units nationwide rely on HITS training to strengthen deployment judgment and courtroom defensibility.

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Broward Sheriff Office

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Arvada Police Department

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US Park Police

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