Can a SOKKS™ dog still find large amounts of explosives and drugs? Why is that possible? SOKKS dogs will find large quantities. Currently the largest find for an explosive K-9 trained on SOKKS™ is over 500 pounds and up to 15 pounds of drugs. The reason is that the SOKKS™ K-9 is trained to prosecute isolated molecules of the target odour, not the entire molecular scent spectrum of each individual explosive or drug. That means that even when there is a total presence of hundreds of pounds of substance, the actual portion of the target that exudes the PURE odour is usually less than half of the total substance. Since we are no longer forcing the K-9 to find all the odours of the target substance (including contaminants) the large quantity question becomes much less difficult to train for. SOKKS™ K-9's can be exposed to large quantities if you have the opportunity to do so, but not more than maybe once a year. How many dogs have been trained using SOKKS™? The total number of SOKKS™ trained, certified dogs in active police service exceeds 260. The breakdown is as follows: 147 Drug, 108 Explosive, 6 Cadaver, 1 Arson. All of these dogs met the applicable official certification standards. Is this another form of Pseudo? SOKKS™ is not pseudo. It contains minute amounts of the molecules that make up the target odour. This eliminates as many contaminants as science allows. Pseudo substances are chemically related to the odours of the drugs and explosives, but they are not identical. SOKKS™ uses only the actual odour of the drugs and explosives. How many different odours are there? There is only one odour for each family of detector dog. All drug training aids are exactly identical as are all of the explosive training aids. This means your K-9 is trained on identical odours each time the dog is exposed to SOKKS™. This is possible due to the scientific research done. Is it hard to order training aids? ONLY AVAILABLE TO LAW ENFORCEMENT & APPROVED AGENCIES
Absolutely not. All you need to do is mail an order on department letter head. Orders can also be faxed to us. Your letter needs to be signed by a supervisor and include your department address and telephone number. Once your payment is received, we will ship the training aids to your department. What are the storage requirements? Do I need a safe or a bunker? If you have a dark and cool place, you can store SOKKS™. Training aids should be stored in the original container in a dark, cool place. SOKKS™ should not be frozen, nor should it be exposed to bright light and high temperatures for long periods of time. But what about the government regulations? The SOKKS™ system is is a prohibited item in Australia as it contains real source odour and regulations do exist for this training aid. Please contact us for more info. Although there are no investigations in case of loss, no need to weigh training aids, no safes or bunkers, and no need for armed guards. No other real odour training system enjoys these exemptions. We can supply ALL Government departments and licence holders. What if my dog swallows a training aid? Do I need to carry the antidotes? SOKKS™ is completely non-toxic. It is absolutely safe for both the handler and the dog. If your dog swallows a training aid, he is still in some danger of intestinal injury and should be seen by a veterinarian. How long do the training aids last? Each dog team will have forty training aids per year. Each aid can be used up to twenty times, allowing you to do up to 800 trials per year. Once a training aid has been used twenty times, it is replaced with a new aid. All used aids are shipped back to origin at the end of the year for recycling. Having this many training aids per dog allows you to take obviously contaminated training aids out of service immediately and still be able to train without having to wait weeks for a replacement. What is the cost for SOKKS™? What about technical support? SOKKS™ is the cheapest method for training detector dogs on the market. The sets include all the material to allow you to start training within one hour of receiving your aids. K-9 Centre is committed to follow on support for its products. SOKKS™ does not require you to change the manner in which you train the K-9, it merely replaces the training aids. Detailed, easy to understand, user instructions are included with each set. Contact us for price quotes. What about legal issues? Will this be acceptable in court? SOKKS™ K-9's are trained on pure odour. We believe that in short order judicial notice will be taken of SOKKS. Each dog can still be certified using current state standards by using conventional training aids. However, since SOKKS uses the PURE ODOUR of the REAL DRUG all current court decisions regarding the validity of training with real substances still apply. Can I still train with conventional "real" training aids or pseudo? NEVER EXPOSE A SOKKS™ TRAINED DOG TO PSEUDO. "Real", or conventional training aids, can be used for certification purposes only. If the SOKKS™ dog is repeatedly exposed to these old training aids, the dog will become conditioned to locate the inherent contaminants in these aids. There is no need for handlers to even have access to old training aids except for annual certification trials. SOKKS™ is not a guarantee that your K-9 will be successful. A carefully selected K9 and the proper application of the principles of conditioning are more influential on the learning process than the training aid. If properly trained, a SOKKS™ K-9 will become a true asset to your department. Abstract: A new method (SOKKS) is demonstrated by which dogs are trained with less than 1 pico-gramm of only one single type of highly purified, non imitating, odorous material to detect extremely low concentrations of qualitatively well defined odours as they derive from explosives, drugs, corps and pseudo corps. Independent of the properties of the material to be detected the SOKKS training method thus reveals a totally safe and non hazardous handling without any environmental risks. It furthermore negates all training problems which may arise from contamination by e.g. packing materials, fillers and production. The training periods last about 7 to 10 weeks. In the special case of proving explosives the concentration of the corresponding training material Octogen is approximately as low as 1 part of Octogen occurs in 1013 parts of ambient air. Trained dogs are able to detect (by “sit” or “down”) extremely low concentrations of some 1000 or 10000 molecules per cm3 of Octogen and, to some extent surprisingly, all further explosives of military and public interests, even weapons and ammunition. In comparison with measurements of evaporation rates of molecularly similar structured radioactive labelled odours the (training) sources will be good for a couple of years of normal use. Similarity conditions hold true for the other SOKKS training materials as they are available for drugs, tracking, pseudo corps, fire sources (accelerants), material identifiers and in short for a wide field of further important applications. | 
