Course

Course Summary
Credit Type:
Course
ACE ID:
TSAT-0011
Organization's ID:
TSA-CTC-PSC-001
Organization:
Transportation Security Administration
Location:
Classroom-based
Length:
16 weeks (716 hours)
Dates Offered:
Credit Recommendation & Competencies
Level Credits (SH) Subject
Lower-Division Baccalaureate 4 homeland security
Description

Objective:

The course objective is to provide knowledge and performance skills needed to perform as a TSA EDC and / or PSC handler during utilization, including routine operations, deployments, and bomb threats or high-risk assignments. In addition to normal EDC requirements, the PSC team has an additional skillset required for searching people.

Learning Outcomes:

  • Employ canine safety procedures to prevent injury and ensure canine health and welfare
  • Apply principles of conditioning and perform obedience commands
  • Document CTC training records
  • Apply principles and practices for handling, storage, transportation, safety, and security of CETA in accordance with the TSA Canine Explosives Training Aid Manual (CETAM)
  • Complete EDC and PSC training records
  • Use the K-9 Training Aid Reporting System (KTARS)
  • Adhere to the Canine Accountable Training System (CATS) requirements
  • 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
  • Create training scenarios to correct deficiencies, and maintain and advance canine team capabilities.
  • Maintain canine gear at optimum levels that minimize equipment failure in accordance with customary and acceptable industry standards of practice
  • Employ handler knowledge and skills to conduct productive searches
  • Employ EDC and PSC search techniques
  • Transport canines in accordance with the United States Department of Agriculture Animal Welfare Act and airline-specific regulations
  • Perform safety practices and procedures when taking an assigned canine to the veterinary clinic
  • Maintain canine health and well-being
  • Identify PSC fundamentals and perform a trailing search
  • 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
  • Using training records, the training results report, and scattergram analysis, develop a canine team Objective-Based Training Plan (OBTP)

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
  • PSC fundamentals
  • PSC search techniques
  • Explosives and CETA safety and accountability
  • Safety, security, and handling of explosives: Canine Training Aid Manual
  • EDC records documentation
  • PSC 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