Bricesen Burton

Officer Bricesen Burton has proudly served with the Monroe Police Department in Monroe, North Carolina for the past eight years. As a certified K-9 trainer, he brings a high level of discipline, tactical knowledge, and field-tested experience to both law enforcement and civilian training. He currently serves as a K-9 operator on the department’s SWAT team and is an active member of the Aggressive Crime Enforcement (ACE) unit, focusing on high-risk offenders, illegal firearms, and narcotics enforcement. Throughout his career, Officer Burton has worked and trained multiple police K-9s and developed and taught advanced classes such as K-9 Building Search Tactics, Building Tracking Seminars, Hard Surface Tracking Seminars, and Tactical Tracking Seminars. He is currently partnered with K-9 Willy, with whom he recently tracked and apprehended a dangerous suspect involved in the shooting of a police officer and a homicide. Officer Burton is honored to represent Ventosa Kennels at this year’s conference and is committed to advancing K-9 capabilities in high-risk operations through real-world application and results-driven training.

Class: Tracking: Scent Discrimination Training

This class will cover in detail the composition of trail scent as well as the environmental influences that affect those compositions. I will break down the training methodology of what scent discrimination training is while tracking. I will also explain correct training protocols for this methodology and its training goals. We will cover the three training methods utilized for scent discrimination training as well as the desired training tracks to emulate in order to produce a track reliable K-9.

Class: Developing Advanced Tracking Skills

This class will cover in detail the skills to be learned in order to advance the K-9 tracking team on the streets. Some of these tracking skills that will be covered in detail include wind awareness, reading the air-scent alert, visual tracking, night training, street or road crossing, surface changes and more.