Richard Howald, K9 Sergeant, Conservation Police Officer
Richard Howald is a Conservation Officer with 21 years of service and a canine handler since 2011. For the past four years, he has supervised his agency’s canine program. He has trained or assisted in training canines for multiple state agencies across the U.S. Over his career, he has carried out hundreds of deployments with his canine partners and supervised and reviewed many more, building his training methods around what those deployments taught him. Richard focuses on developing skilled canines and sharp handlers who can think through problems, so the two work as a highly successful team.
