JHPTS Program News

Three Fires Trackers is sponsoring a 5-day, 46-plus hours of training to be presented for law enforcement and SAR responders on April 22-26, 2019 in Traverse City, Michigan.  This course is the greatest bargain Professional Tracking Training in the world today!  The facility is first class, with first class instructors and instruction for minimal cost.   Trackers and aspiring tracker, if you’re sincerely interested in tracking and in continuing your tracking training this is far more training than you will receive at a 24-hour course for less cost per day.

Those who choose to join us will have the opportunity to work with, talk with, and be advised and taught by the renowned commissioned law enforcement/criminal investigation tracker, Kathleen Decker, who has  over 300 major criminal cases waiting in the que while defense attorneys try to find any other tracker to refute her expertise.

Please submit your registrations if you haven’t done so already. The cost is $200.00 for “sworn” law enforcement officers and $450.00 for all others. Meals and lodging will be provided for this class.  Bring your own towels and toiletries.  And, please remember your gear for inclement weather. Students can arrive on Sunday because class starts on Monday morning at 8:00 AM.  If you have any questions, don’t hesitate to call Al Fox at 218-849-0181.

JHPTS-Visual Tracking Now has a Northeast Tracking Program



Last fall, JHPTS-Visual Tracking returned to the Northeast with a Basic Law Enforcement sanctioned course on Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Building upon that start, on March 26, 2019, designated trainers began training both novice students and those students who had attended that sanctioned course in an In-House program. Beginning with modules on the history of the program, drawing the track and learning how to employ the tracking stick, students were soon beginning to accept that wherever someone walks they leave sign; and a trained tracker can follow that sign. The students who attended this first session included a volunteer K9 handler from MAR K9, a park ranger from the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation, environmental police officers from the Massachusetts Environmental Police, police officers from the Southeastern Massachusetts Law Enforcement Council Search and Rescue Team and a fire fighter from the Barnstable County Technical Rescue Team and FEMA USAR Taskforce 1.  Kudos to Basic Tracker Phil Desroches for his dedication and persistence in getting this program up and running.







Sign Cutter Kathy Decker is a detective with the Major Crimes Unit of the King County Sheriff's Office, in Washington State.  A few weeks ago Kathy received the Jim Doyon Detective of the Year Award.  Members of that community noted that Kathy received a standing ovation, only the second of which they ever had observed.

Watch the clip linked below.  You can start at about 50 minutes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLZnl2R3WVo&feature=em-share_video_user

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