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ABOUT US
Phil Bowyer joined Her Majesty’s Prison Service in 1984 at HMP Maidstone. Following his passion for working with dogs he then transferred to the Dog Section at HMP Pentonville in 1987 after successfully completing his Initial Patrol dog course with Lancashire Constabulary at Preston Police Dog Training school.
He also attended Bridgend Police Dog School with the South Wales Police in 1989 for a replacement patrol dog.
Between 1990 & 1997 Phil competed in the HM Prison Service National Dog Trials, gaining a Reserve National champion and two 3rd Places and some individual trophies.
He then transferred to HMP Whitemoor in January 1991 working as a patrol handler in the "High Security" estate.
During 1995 he attended RAF Newton where he was trained with search dog "Jed" who was the first Passive Body Scanning dog in the Prison Service. On his second day of operational service Phil and Jed had their first arrest. Jed was retired in 2003 after having over 220 operational arrests.
In 1998-
In early 2002 Phil attended the Metropolitan Police Training Centre at Keston, where he successfully completed his ACPO Accredited Weapons / Narcotics Search dog Instructors course.
2003 Phil was promoted to Senior Officer and took up post as Regional Drug Dog coordinator / trainer for the Eastern Area (HMPs), working directly with the Regional manager and managing 24 dog teams.
In 2005 Phil carried out R&D into the feasibility of training a dog to located Mobile Phones. In 2006 "Murphy" an English Springer Spaniel was trained
by Phil and operated by Officer Mel Barker at HMP Norwich, Murphy was the worlds first MPDD (Mobile Phone Detection Dog). Since this first dog the
Prison Service and other agencies world wide have used these dogs to locate illicit mobile phones.
Phil was nominated and awarded a National Service Dog Bravery & Achievement Award for Outstanding Achievement as presented by Lord Petre the Lord Lieutenant of Essex.
Phil has also judged and stewarded at the Prison Service Regional and National Dog Trials between 2008 -
During Phil's time as the RDDC for the dog teams in the East of England he had produced six National Prison Service Passive Drug Dog Champions, three National Prison Service Pro-
During 2011 Phil carried out a R &D project to evaluate and train IBAD dogs (Illicit Brewed Alcohol Dogs). The research was so successful that the East of England Region (HMPS) currently have five dual trained IBAD / ADD dogs in service.
Phil was promoted to Custodial Manager in 2012, as well as continuing in his role as Regional Search Dog coordinator for the East of England Prison Service.
In June 2013 Phil left the Prison service taking an early retirement package. He now uses his experience and training skills to train dogs at Crown Canine Security Solutions. As it is our aim to train top quality "course ready" search dogs for law enforcement agencies and private sector security firms.
Phil is currently involved with a Joint Agency Dog Training Initiative which is proving to be both very rewarding and ground breaking for all parties involved. The successful dogs have have gone on to prove themselves operationally time and time again. He feels extremely fortunate not only to be involved with this project but also to have taken on a lead role.
Phil is a NASDU Approved Trainer and is an Accredited Home Office Search Dog Instructor.
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