Each year, the Association presents awards at its annual conference designed to highlight outstanding achievement in canine handling.

Nominations should be sent to:

Chris Deakin

Waukesha County Sheriff’s Office

515 W. Moreland Blvd.

Waukesha, WI 53188

Nominations should be for deployments from
September 1st, 2006 through August 31st, 2007.
The only exception is K9 Handler of the Year,  which can include information from several years of work. Awards will be presented during the Awards Banquet at the 2007 Conference. 

The categories are:

K9 Officer of the Year K9 Rookie of the Year Meritorious K9 Apprehension Meritorious K9 Track Meritorious Narcotics Find Meritorious Article Find

Due to the lack of nominations, we will now be awarding only one award per category. 
Since the 1999 conference, we had presented two awards for each of the  categories. An award was presented to a canine unit both south and north of Hwy. 10.*
The decision to change the awards structure was due in part to population differences.  The only exception will be K9 Handler of the Year and K9 Rookie Handler of the Year, which will be presented to one canine unit for the entire state.

*Hwy. 10 runs east to west through the counties of Manitowoc, Calumet, Waupaca, Portage, Wood, Clark, Jackson, Trempealeau, Buffalo, Pepin and Pierce.