The staff is the only saving grace, I say staff ONLY, as management is only friendly with you until you put your foot down and refuse to be treated poorly. Instead of having proper staff and different departments so that each job can be done efficiently and stress-free, they make their already over-worked trainers also do office-staff tasks (with no increase in your wage, mind you), and even if you consistently make quota any OTHER month, but have a single bad month out of that? Then you just aren't taking your job seriously. There is no communication between management and staff, and so no one knows what is going on half the time because of this, rules change without us being notified and then we get in trouble for not knowing them! You would probably think that their staff who have been there for years would be paid better at least right? wrong! Someone entering this job in the first week gets paid the same as someone who has been there five years! The lack of growth is really alarming. Within this place is a plethora of knowledge and natural talent that takes years and years to gain and how do they compensate for it? Barely anything!- plus no health care benefits. If you have any sort of extensive knowledge on Dog Training, Dog behavior, and how to properly care for a dog- then please do not waste your talents at AYP. This company did have a big turnover rate, and that's only because the standards of the - more. A manager will tell you want to do and you on your own to figure it out. The Trainers are nice and will help you along the way, and I mean only the trainer. You can say you issues many time and you might even get the "this is the first time I'm hearing about this", which mean the communication between employees is off even though the use a texting app to update info. I've seen trainers burnt out and even cry over dogs or even be overworked. If you good with time management this can be the place for you and you need to find a way to deal with the heavy stress. They're not health benefits here and they do take in human reactive cases but then do need to been seen by a private trainer before hand. When putting in you time off the recommend 60 days before but most times you can get you days off. I've seem people get hired full time and not handed a work shirt for weeks. Any sort of criticism towards management is an "attack" towards them so you need to be careful what you say and how you say it. On top of this you "extra money" comes from sales and you need to hit a $5,000 mark and only get %5 of that cut. By then you realize your behind on your day but you just need to "make it work". Some staff member or management just delegate while you rushing to do everything in the morning. The place can be pretty loud and stressful to most dogs. Day starts in by checking in dog and setting them up in group. “While our dogs are often the first to go towards danger, their handlers are not far behind because one doesn’t operate without the other.I used to have love for working here but over time the company standards have really fallen. Senior Constable Dave Robison, Whakatane, and Sergeant Bruce McLeod, Northland, added to their skillset, graduating with Labradors trained to detect drugs, cash and firearms.Īcting Assistant Commissioner Mike Johnson congratulated the handlers, telling them dogs are an integral part of policing. Tasman District’s Sergeant Craig Moore graduated with Lokkie, his fourth dog. With 35 years of experience as a dog handler, Auckland’s Senior Constable Dave Templeton is still enthused about his job, graduating with Costa, the eighth dog he has worked. They, along with four teams from NZ Customs, took part in the combined ceremony, the largest to be held this year.įive of the seven patrol dog handlers graduated with their first operational dog and the canine line-up included F litter siblings – sisters Frankie and Fi – along with brother Faze. Nine new Police dog teams are ready for action after graduating from the New Zealand Police Dog Training Centre in Trentham.
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