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English for K9 Security and Law Enforcement

Prepared for: Station chiefs, training officers, academy directors and unit commanders. CEFR B2 and C1 courseware with assessment rubrics — $19 per officer, unit and academy licences available. Created by CIC/NGO Leader James Corden-Lloyd, an accredited English educator, who ran a K9 security company in Jakarta for three years after a tennis-coaching financier client asked him to manage it while continuing to teach.

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The problem this addresses

  • English is tested at selection and again at promotion, but almost no service provides English training tied to actual duties.
  • Officers are degree holders. Their gap is not general English — it is precise operational English under pressure, in writing that survives a court.
  • A vague clause in an affidavit, or an ambiguous instruction at a cordon, is an operational failure, not a language one.

What the programme is

  • One programme, two CEFR bands: B2 for standard field duty, C1 for legal and public information duty.
  • Duty-first units: checkpoint questioning, search commands, radio discipline, detection-indication reporting, incident reports, affidavits, press lines.
  • Assessment rubrics an assessing officer can apply, producing a signed progression record for the officer's file.

What officers are assessed on

  • Written as English for Specific Purposes: every unit starts from a duty an officer already performs, not from a general-English syllabus.
  • CEFR-referenced throughout, so a completed file is documentary evidence of B2 or C1 attainment for a promotion or selection board.
  • Two bands in one programme — B2 for standard field duty, C1 for legal, prosecution-liaison and public information work.
  • Assessment rubrics are written for an assessing officer, not a language teacher: score sheets, model answers and a progression record.
  • Print-ready A4 throughout, so a training officer can reproduce radio-phrase cards, command banks and report templates for a whole shift.
  • Created by CIC/NGO Leader James Corden-Lloyd, an accredited English educator, who ran a K9 security company in Jakarta, Indonesia for three years after a financier tennis client asked him to manage it while continuing to coach — the operational scenarios come from the field, not a textbook.

Commercial terms

  • $19 USD per officer, one-time, immediate access to the complete programme.
  • Unit, station and academy licences available for multi-officer intakes, with assessor copies included.
  • No subscription, no per-seat renewal, no software to install — courseware and assessment materials only.

Suggested first step

A station or academy can run a single squad through the B2 band first, review the assessment record, then licence for the wider intake.

Three sections of the programme are published in full for review before any purchase, so a training officer can judge the standard first.

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