Course

Course Summary
Credit Type:
Course
ACE ID:
TSAT-0010
Organization's ID:
TSA-CTC-EDC-TR
Organization:
Transportation Security Administration
Location:
Classroom-based
Length:
11 weeks (491 hours)
Dates Offered:
Credit Recommendation & Competencies
Level Credits (SH) Subject
Lower-Division Baccalaureate 4 homeland security
Description

Objective:

The course objective is to provide students with the knowledge and performance skills needed to perform as a TSA EDC handler during utilization, including routine operations, deployments, and bomb threats or high-risk assignments.

Learning Outcomes:

  • Maintain canine gear and employ canine safety procedures
  • Apply principles of conditioning and perform obedience commands
  • Document CTC training records
  • Explain facts and characteristics pertaining to the TSA inventory of explosives, and apply principles and practices for handling explosives, observing safety and security measures, in accordance with the Canine Explosive Training Aid Manual (CETAM) and Bureau of Alcohol, and Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives requirements
  • Apply principles and practices for handling, storage, transportation, safety, and security of CETA in accordance with the TSA Canine Explosives Training Aid Manual (CETAM)
  • Identify the purpose of reviewing scattergrams
  • Demonstrate Operational Mindset philosophies, attitudes, beliefs, work ethics, and utilization skills to react to improvised explosives device (IED) detection scenarios that threaten the transportation triad
  • Employ operational integration processes and practices with a canine
  • Employ EDC search techniques
  • Transport canines in accordance with the United States Department of Agriculture Animal Welfare Act and airline-specific regulations and perform safety practices and procedures when taking an assigned canine to the veterinary clinic while maintaining canine health and well-being
  • Complete EDC training records
  • Use the K-9 Training Aid Reporting System (KTARS) and adhere to the Canine Accountable Training System (CATS) requirements
  • Use training records, the training results report, and scattergram analysis, develop a canine team Objective-Based Training Plan (OBTP)
  • Create training scenarios to correct deficiencies, and maintain and advance canine team capabilities

General Topics:

  • Canine gear
  • Safety
  • Principles of conditioning
  • Obedience
  • Detection fundamentals
  • Explosives detection canine search techniques
  • Canine transportation
  • Veterinarian clinic safety
  • Canine health
  • CTC training records
  • Explosives and CETA safety and accountability
  • Safety, security, and handling of explosives: Canine Training Aid Manual
  • EDC records documentation
  • K-9 Training Aid Reporting System
  • Scattergrams
  • Developing an objective-based training plan
  • Operational mindset and readiness
  • Operational integration
  • Scenario development
Instruction & Assessment

Instructional Strategies:

  • Audio Visual Materials
  • Classroom Exercise
  • Computer Based Training
  • Lectures
  • Practical Exercises

Methods of Assessment:

  • Examinations
  • Performance Rubrics (Checklists)

Minimum Passing Score:

70%
Supplemental Materials