The largest training facility would obviously be the RCMP police dog service training centre in Innisfail, Alberta. The next largest would likely be the OPP's training program here in Ontario. Outside of that you have roughly 500 service dogs engaged in various forms of law enforcement or peace officer activity across Canada. That's a ballpark figure. Much of that training occurs at local agencies. For instance, when I was in Saskatoon, I was the trainer for nine service dogs there. I accredited myself and affiliated myself nationally with the Canine Law Enforcement Accreditation Registry. That was a voluntary aspect of my development as a trainer and handler.
We don't have a centralized location where all these officers and all these dogs go to train. We do send officers on training. I have 16 officers here at my facility in Ottawa right now. They come from around the world. I have an individual from Madagascar here training with us. They come to us, and we try to have different training courses throughout the country that are accessible to our trainers and handlers. We don't have one centralized location. We have a number of small departments, agencies, etc., and we try to get trainers together to give them the knowledge to send them back with.
As far as costs for that go, to train a green dog and a new handler, the basic component of that course to be patrol dog team is roughly four months or 80 days. Then if you want that dog to become a specialty dog, a tactical dog, a detection dog, a cadaver dog, whatever the specialty is, those programs vary from an additional six weeks to perhaps three months.