Detection Contracting
Educational Facilities
How our detection K9 teams can help schools:
Our K9 teams’ presence alone helps deter dangerous contraband from entering our schools. Additionally, we can help uncover mental health crises, substance abuse, self-medicating, and assist those needing help to overcome future risks of violence. By providing your campus with a safe, secure learning environment, we can help boost student safety, productivity, and education retention. We understand the social concerns related to drug use, possession, distribution, and mass shootings at schools; therefore, our goal is to foster a deterrence and education program. This positive, understanding approach helps students and staff feel at ease if contraband is found. Because we aim for a friendly, non-threatening presence, we encourage schools to provide an amnesty box or bin for those wishing to safely dispose of contraband before entering campus.
Consistent sweeps help ensure we build a long-term, drug- and violence-free culture on campus.
Our dedicated K9 teams can search entire campuses, regardless of size. We are equipped to work safely before, during, or after school hours and can serve both public and private schools.
Detection teams are trained to sweep various areas such as: parking lots and exterior spaces, building perimeters and grounds, staff breakrooms, facility offices and restrooms, guest or visitor vehicles and waiting areas, classrooms, backpacks and personal belongings, lockers (including PE lockers), campus equipment storage areas, libraries, technology centers, art galleries, workshop areas, gymnasiums, stadiums, fields, and extracurricular event spaces.
Since our K9s are social and passively alert their handlers, we can safely identify target areas without causing damage to personal property. Additionally, because we are not law enforcement, we will never interrogate, arrest, or prosecute individuals. If a K9 detects something, our team will notify your school’s designated staff member, who can then handle the issue according to your specific protocols. This approach helps build confidence in students, staff, and parents that only trusted authority figures (whom they know) will be interacting with them and their children.
“All students deserve a drug- and violence-free place to learn, grow, and develop.
It is our duty as a community to provide a safe learning environment for everyone.”
School Safety Studies Show:
Since Columbine in 1999, more than 338,000 students in the United States of America have experienced gun violence at school.
In 2019, children comprised 22% of the population in the United States, and accounted for approximately 25% of victims in all mass shootings. Each day 12 children died from gun violence in the United States of America.
Guns are a leading cause of death among American children and teens. In a 2022 study, firearms were the leading cause of death for children and teens (ages 1-17) with an average of 7 young people dying every day. 1 in 10 gun deaths are age 19 or younger.
An estimated 4.6 million American children live in a home where at least one gun is kept loaded and unlocked. These improperly stored weapons have contributed to school shootings, suicides and the deaths of family members, including infants and toddlers.
Nearly half of all parents with a weapon in the home wrongly believe their children don’t know where a gun is stored.
Guns used in about 68% of gun-related incidents at school were taken from the home, friend or relative.