Kitsap County
Search Dogs

Who We Are

Kitsap County Search Dogs is a unit of professional volunteers under the Department of Emergency Management. Our mission is to provide trained canine teams to assist the Sheriff in locating missing persons. Teams are ready to respond at all times of day in all types of weather.

What We Do

Kitsap County Search Dogs has several different speciality teams, which are called out when in need by the Kitsap County Sheriff. Dogs, with their keen sense of smell and intelligence, are a huge asset to a search effort. It takes patience, dedication and hundreds of hours to become an effective canine search team. An effective search team also relies on numerous support people to get the job done.

Volunteer Opportunities

We are not currently accepting new handlers at this time. If you're interested in joining us as a field support team member, get in touch with us through our contact page.

We are always looking for new volunteers to support our team as hiders for our regular training sessions.

We train weekly, throughout the year, and having new hiders helps our dogs by presenting new and different scents for them to find.

If you enjoy the outdoors, love to play with dogs, and would like to see how we work with our dogs in a search and rescue scenario, consider volunteering with us as a hider.

If interested, contact us and we'll be happy to give you more details about becoming a volunteer hider with our team.