Jeff Adkins is the founder and former owner of , Tri-State K9 Search and Rescue Association. ARES member KD8LRZ, A member of the Homeland Security task force for southern WV region, and Master trainer with ASCT National K9. NRA Certified Instructor. A former Patrolman for New Haven Pd,establishing there first K9 Sasha as well as training ther current K9 Dakota.

I have trained under Mike Munson of Augusta K9 Services as well as many other trainers in the country. Expert witness in K9 managment and Police K9 deployment in the United States.

I have been in the Tri-State area since 2002 when we started , first in Ohio then moving our kennel to West Virginia and started our training facility. We breed and train Police dogs, Malinois, German Shepherds, Labs, Golden Retreivers, and Bloodhounds.

We train them for scent detection, scent discrimination, protection, patrol, tracking, and SAR. Our facility is over 100 acres with an abundance of land and roads for maximum training capability. We have a lighted agility course and agitation area as well as lighted scent areas both indoors and out.

We are always changing and expanding our facility, we just started a shooting range as well as a SRT training field and we are still working on a disaster recovers field for cadaver and other dogs, primitive campsites for our SAR training. We have a full time non-profit SAR unit for the community's needs.

We also donate a police dog ever year to a department in need.

Zach Adkins Owner of Tri State K9 Services, isamember Homeland Security Task Force Southern Division, Certified Handler August 2008 Homeland security training in Planning and responding to a terrorism incident mgt-317, Incident Management Unified Command for CBRNE and Terrorism Incidents mgt-313 training. 

Advanced kennel management, Canine breeding, Grooming, and puppy socialization. Full time trainer. He started his dog-training career at the age of 14 while imprinting his first detection dog. Since then he has helped in whelped and raising 100's of dogs and helped produce numerous police dogs to the country. 
Zach is a graduate of Point Pleasant High School and continues training dogs for Tri Sate K9 Services, Also 2nd in command for our sar unit, KD8LRY and ARES member.