Company History

The Canine Development Group was conceived from the hard work and creative minds of three K-9 handlers who had spent years working together on various training ventures and programs. It is through their experiences together and training hundreds of police service dogs and handlers across the United States and its territories that our company was born. The concepts and techniques of quality training are not unique to CDG, but rather perfected in our conferences, and working dog seminars. Our corporation was established in 2003 and with that came the latitude to train more Police K-9 teams in more locations across America than ever before. In 2007 Canine Development Group, in partnership with the Police K-9 Magazine, created the first ever HITS conference which has taken the police canine industry to an exciting new level of professionalism that has never been seen before. Canine Development Group is involved in the constant evolution of new ideas for police dog training that is limitless in resources and quality trainers.

Andrew Weiman
Andrew Weiman began his police career over 21 years ago with the Pompano Beach Police Department in Broward County Florida. Shortly after graduating from the Broward County Police Academy at the top of his class he was promoted to the Vice, Inteligence and Narcotics Division. During this assignment he conducted investigations involving Organized Crime, Narcotics smuggling and manufacturing, Organized Gambling and Prostitution, Public corruption, Drug Interdiction, and Drug Detection Canines. He graduated from the Canadian Customs Detector Dog Service and has been certified by them for the last 13 years. Currently he is employed by the Broward County Sheriff's Office as the trainer of the drug detection canines and works in a street narcotics division utilizing a drug detection canine each day. He began teaching with the Multijurisdictional Counterdrug Task Force Training Center in Saint Petersburg, Florida in 1996. He teaches Domestic Interdiction classes and Narcotic Canine Operations. These classes are exported to all parts of the continental United States and its territories. He has been a presentor each year at the HITS (Handler Instructor Training Seminar). He also is a member of the Editorial Advisory Board for Police K-9 Magazine. Andrew Weiman has been called upon to utilize his expertise in state and federal cases involving drug detection canines and to evaluate drug detection canines for various agencies in the United States. He is committed to raising the bar in drug detection around the country and producing highly skilled and professional drug detection canine handlers.


Jeff Barrett
Jeff has been a police officer for the Lakeland Police Department, Lakeland Florida, for 22 years. For the past 20 years he’s been assigned to the K-9 Unit where he is the Senior K-9 trainer and Coordinator for his 9 dog unit. Jeff is a certified K-9 Trainer and Evaluator with the Florida Department of Law Enforcement. Jeff is a certified Level II Trainer for the United States Police Canine Association. He is also certified with the USPCA as a judge for detector dogs, tracking dogs and patrol dogs. Jeff is a current member of the NAPWDA and the USPCA where he serves as the President for Region One.


Ted Daus
Ted Daus is an assistant state attorney with the Broward County State Attorney's Office in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. He has been a prosecutor for the past 17 years, the last 13 of which he has been assigned to the Drug Trafficking Unit for the State Attorney's Office. Ted graduated from Nova Southeastern School of Law in 1991. He has extensive experience as a lecturer on search and seizure for D.E.A., U.S. Customs, various Florida police departments, the Florida Prosecuting Attorneys Association, the Police K-9 Training Institute, and the Canine Development Group. Ted is a Contributing Editor for Police K-9 Magazine, writing canine legal articles for the canine law enforcement community. He is an adjunct Professor of Law for Nova Southeastern University teaching trial advocacy. He has lecture for both NPCA and NAPWDA membership conferences. Ted lectures every year nationally at "HITS" (Handler Instructor Training Seminar).