Advanced Canine Technology has been supplying quality detection dogs to the security industry for nearly two decades. In the nineties dogs were being sold overseas in large numbers, now that detection dogs have become an every day security item they are dificult to find with the qualities that agencies are looking for!

The need to produce dogs with quality whilst maintaining the standards required to meet exacting work ethic is essential and combining that with physical qualities and temperament is vital. We have an international client list which includes some of the worlds major law enforcement agencies who have relied on the quality, trainability and determination of our dogs. References can be supplied on request!

The company owner has experience and knowledge that has produced quality detector dogs for the past 18 years and by selective breeding, training on a daily basis for major agencies and being conversant with current up to date changes in terms of technology combined with different applications in canine behaviour that has made ACT a leader in canine innovation!

Eric Burchell possesses a varied and diverse background in the research and development of vapour and particulate detection at trace levels using dogs.

Eric's previous experience in breeding has given him the opportunity to identify and develop the desirable genetic traits that are most sought after in the well balanced working / service dog.

He is well versed in the advanced technical and tactical aspects of scent discrimination training and deployment. He has endeavored over the last eighteen years to make dog work in this field his specialty. Eric has worked closely with scientific government agencies to validate the results and achievements that he has obtained during the years of research and developement: Has instructed in the area of scent discrimination on a world wide basis.

SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE

1993 - Present: Instructor/Consultant/Lecturer of canine scent discrimination at trace levels and proven in the vapour detection field.

1993 - 2000 Engaged by Mechem Consultants of South Africa and other agencies to conduct initial six months trials in the UK using the Mechem Explosive Drug Detection System (MEDDS).This programme lasted for seven years and has helped develop remote air sampling to become a bona fida detection system officially recognised and used in many parts of the world today marketed under several different names.

1997 Contracted in by the Norwegian Peoples Aid to consult on the canine Programe in Angola West Africa. They were using MEDDS technology. Also visited Mozambique to consult on the ongoing canine projects in the south of the country.

1999 Eric was engaged in similar related projects (see 1997) with the United States Government, working with their own research agency DARPA. This was a landmine detection programme using canine verses the latest electrical and chemical technology of the time.

2003 Opened a breeding and training kennel in the Czech republic, ACTK9CZ s.r.o. has provided dogs world-wide to agencies already on our client list.

2005 ACT DETECTION DOGS(NI) Ltd was formed with a view to initiate a breeding programme and produce potential detector dogs for training to save the time and effort in trying to source dogs elswhere in what was becoming a difficult proposition.

2009-2011 Training and development consultant to NDEA (Seychelles)

2011 Registered a new company in Sweden ADVANCED CANINE TECHNOLOGIES (ACT Assistance Dogs) with long time associates Marie Fogelquist and Mats Hedland to promote and train dogs to work with the disabled.