Owner: David Bessason
I am a retired Sgt. from the Winnipeg Police Service (WPS). After serving close to 28 years, I retired in 2017. I was fortunate to have spent the last 21 years of my career working between the K9 unit and as a Detective Sgt. in the Homicide Unit.
With over 30 years of training canines I am proud to have the following accomplishments:
Worked and trained over 400 canine teams across North America.
Trained 42 K9 Teams to the Winnipeg Police Service Standards which is regarded as one of the toughest training standards in North America. The most of any trainer in Winnipeg Police Service (WPS) history.
One of the most successful K9 handlers in our unit’s history with over 300 tracking arrests.
In 1999 started the first ever breeding program ran by a municipal Police Service in North America.
Bred over 120 malinois with a 90% success rate.
Oversaw the raising and training of over 40 pups.
Raised 13 pups.
Worked 2 General purpose K9’s and 3 Single purpose K9’s.
2008-2017 Oversaw all training and validations of all teams that was trained by the WPS.
Developed new training standards that made WPS as having one of the highest training standards in North America.
Trained K9 Teams for all major municipal Police Services in Manitoba, Manitoba Corrections, Manitoba Conservation and the Grand Forks Police Service.
Since 2003, been a guest speaker and trainer for seminars across North America. Have trained teams from over 150 different police agencies.
Certified Master Trainer for the North American Professional Canine Handlers Association.
Only Canadian Police Canine trainer requested by the United States Police Canine Association National President to sit on a 7 member board for National Training Seminars.
Only Canadian presenter at the K9 Cop Magazine seminars in Nashville 2017 and Las Vegas 2018
In 2017 the NHL mandated explosive searches and I was approached by the Leadership of the Winnipeg Jets to run their Security Dog Program. I retired in the spring of 2017 and founded Prok9 Inc.
I continue to be a guest lecturer and provides seminars to Police agencies and is now proud to be able to bring my knowledge and expertise to the general public
I have been fortunate to both train and work with some great people from law enforcement, corrections and security backgrounds. I have assembled a team that has close to a 100 years of combined experience in training and handling of K9’s. Our team has a sincere dedication to provide a comprehensive detection service, K9 training and the development of superior K9 teams.
Our team will attempt to meet all of our valued customers needs and continue to make our community a safer place to live.