Mission Statement
To provide our government clients with bespoke training and consultancy services, utilising current and best practice training methodologies
About Us
Blackrole K9 Government Training Pty Ltd is an Australian veteran owned company, founded to provide bespoke K9 training and consultancy services to government organisations utilising working canines.
Our owner and founder has personally witnessed operational canines save the lives of soldiers in a war zone during his military service and is aware of the strategic impact a highly functioning canine team can provide to an organisation.
Our trainers and consultants are highly experienced in understanding the challenges faced by organisations when starting, growing and maintaining canine capabilities.
Based in Geelong, Victoria, we work with organisations to understand their current capabilities and how together, we can achieve their desired end state.
We offer bespoke options, models and frameworks to achieve the organisations desired outcomes, with a focus on creating safe, efficient and robust operational canine capabilities.
OWNER AND FOUNDER OF BLACKROLE K9
Marco O’Hehir is the Owner and Founder of Blackrole K9. Marco served in the Australian Defence Force for 16 years, 6 years of which were with the Special Air Service Regiment (SASR) in Perth, WA. This is where his passion for working dogs was born, as his primary role in SASR was as a Combat Assault Dog (CAD) Hander.
His passion for working dogs was fuelled by the counter terrorism training conducted in Australia and operational lessons learnt in Afghanistan, with his CAD RUGA.
“I was very fortunate to have some highly experienced, talented, forward thinking and arguably world’s best mentors during my time in SASR as a CAD Handler/Supervisor. I am thankful for these world class mentors.. they know who they are.
I am additionally very grateful and forever indebted for the opportunity and support I have been given by Matt, Owner of Odin K9.
In 2016, Marco completed a lateral transfer to the Victoria Police Force, where he assisted in raising a Tactical Working Dog Capability.
“This was an incredible opportunity and I am very thankful to have trained alongside these very professional officers. The opportunity to assist in raising this program, adding to the years of hard work of those committed officers before and around me, is something I am very grateful for.”
In 2018, Marco founded Blackrole K9 to provide his services to specialist police, military and other government departments, utilising working canines, worldwide.
“It has been a privilege to provide our services to our government clients and assist in both raising new capabilities and enhance existing ones. We work daily to strengthen and refine our training principles, to ensure they are progressive and current best practice. We do this by collaborating with the worlds best military and police K9 trainers, applying operational lessons learnt from our clients in the field and problem-solving issues with our own development dogs, multiple times on a daily basis.”