Quality Standards

TEK9 cooperates with trainers, instructors, and experts from private and official service dog sectors. We maintain close contact with security professionals from the industrial and event management sectors, as well as representatives of various official security agencies and government terrorism experts at home and abroad.

Among other things, this enables us to determine which explosives have been used in attacks in Europe in recent years, thus allowing us to further educate our teams and the deployed explosive detection dogs accordingly. Furthermore, we cooperate with scientists from the Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences (Department of Detection Methods for Explosives/Security Research).

TEK9 is part of the expert committee for the development of DIN SPEC 77201 and has been involved in its development for over 2 years. DIN SPEC 77201-1 and 77201-2 include quality requirements for service dog operations in the security industry and, among other things, a certification process for explosive detection dogs. Free Download DIN SPEC 77201-1 and 77201-2

We have the following licenses:

• Security license according to § 34a of the German Trade Regulation Act
• Certificate of competence according to § 11 of the Animal Welfare Act
• Permit according to § 7 of the Explosives Act
• Certificate of qualification according to § 20 of the Explosives Act
• Federal Network Agency frequency allocation according to § 55 in conjunction with § 58 of the Telecommunications Act
• Approval as a transport company for dogs according to Article 11 Para. 1 of Regulation (EC) 1/2005

For the further training of our deployed teams, we regularly organize special courses such as:

• Detection of large quantities of explosives
• Detection of homemade explosives such as TATP and HMTD
• Operational tactics for large events

• TEK9 “Bomb House”

TEK9 Teams

• must undergo an annual independent review according to EU standards or DIN SPEC 77201 by certified experts (if possible, official)
• are licensed according to § 34a of the German Trade Regulation Act
• in addition to the annual review according to EU and/or DIN standards, annually complete special courses for the detection of homemade explosives such as TATP and HMTD, as well as the detection of large quantities of explosives, operational tactics, procedures and specifics of large events, observer/spotter/crowd watching
• speak German, English, French, Dutch, Polish, or Italian, among other languages.
• are not only certified explosive detection dog handlers, but without exception are also trained security personnel, former or active police officers, military police, or come from police or military special forces or similar backgrounds.

TEK9 Explosive Detection Dogs

• are exclusively trained on real explosives. For this purpose, TEK9 has access to all currently relevant civilian and military explosives
• are conditioned to detect all explosives that have been used in attacks in Europe in recent years
• live in family units and are able to handle assigned tasks at any time due to their age, size, and search conditioning
• are experienced in deployment
• are friendly and have no problem working in the midst of people