At Zauberberg K9 we are aware of the fact that a dog needs to be reliable as much as an animal can be. Choosing the right temperament and going the extra mile training a narcotic detection dog is our promise.
Our narcotic detection dog training is targeting:

• Generalization of location
• Generalization of containment
• Going through a spectrum of possible concentration of contraband in amount and intensity
• Conditioning the dog to the occurrence / presence of target odor rather than being lead by handler action/ motivation

In our narcotic detection training program, we emphasize that, containment of contraband is constantly changed, location varies as much as amount of target odors are different.
Police K9 handlers' influence is always trained to be none excising. The dog should start detailing and finding the source of the target odor once he is attracted by the odor - and not by handler guidance and influence.
To locate and pinpoint the odor is trained separately from indicating behavior- especially its duration!
Training needs to be maintained properly. Therefor our course makes the handler a K9 trainer!

Some information about detection dog training!
Zauberberg K9 feels very strongly about training detection dogs that really learned a connection of a "target odor focus" leading them to reward. It has been established that it is not that easy to just combine a toy with the odor and then hope that the dog goes for the toy...............we know it is an ILLUSION that can easily be created giving an uneducated bystander the impression that the dog is looking for the target odor!

After the Police K9 detection dog has been conditioned to actually receive a click as a marker that 1) he will get a reward (here food) and 2) the click identifies the desired behavior (sniffing the target odor), the dog learns that the containment (here glass containers stuck in cinder blocks- one glass holding target odor) and the location is irrelevant. Only putting his nose on the right glass which contains the target odor, is leading to click / reward. It is important to expose to horizontal and vertical positioning of the target containment.

The Police K9 detection dog is starting to be conditioned to a signalizing tone from his electric collar to show a longer focus onto the target. The objective here is NOT to identify target odor- it is to "keep going" to point at it. The detection dog should pinpoint with his nose for a period of time (actually until the click)- or a handler signal that "now reward is forthcoming , you can now separate from the point of odor." 
The sequence shown in this session is 1) pinpoint the source 2) hearing the tone means you are doing it right  3) the tone ends and you hear the click = you can now engage in the reward.
Also noticeable that the reward is actually present at the time the dog is asked to engage in the source of odor. There is no gimmick of combining the odor and the reward in one and the same! Training set up this way should lead to a dog that truly is attracted by the odor and not a combination of odor and reward from the same source- which always carries the risk that the dog is looking for a "compound" attraction of odor .