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RAVC/DATR Opportunities
NASDU and the private security dog sector acknowledges the skills & experience of RAVC/DATR trained personnel and as such have opportunities for Trainers and handlers within the private sector.
VOCATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS OFFERED:
Level 2 Award for a Security Dog Handler
Pathways: GP, Patrol Dog
Level 3 Certificate for a Security Dog Handler
Alfred Munnings and Sir William Orpen. The first
of these had lost an eye and the second was colour- blind, which just shows that you shouldn’t let a little disability hold you back, but interestingly they also had a professional rivalry, and Sergeant Murphy was the horse which Orpen chose when he decided to make a point to the art world. Munnings, who had been unfit for active service in the war but served in
a remount depot as well as being an unofficial war artist for the Canadian forces, was widely regarded as being Britain’s foremost equine artist. Orpen declined to go back to Ireland as many fellow Irishmen did
at the outbreak of hostilities and instead became
an official war artist for the British government. He was, however, known as a society and portrait artist and it was assumed that he was probably not much good at animals. To prove that he was as talented as Munnings he entered in The Royal Academy in 1923
a painting, he called Sergeant Murphy and Things. The title references Munnings’ Sergeant Murphy and Trainer. Both paintings show Tuppy Bennet mounted on the horse, but Orpen’s also shows Munnings leaning against a rather unimpressive oak tree - oak trees being one of Munnings’ favourite inclusions in his equestrian portraits. Munnings sportingly said
he thought Orpen’s painting was better than his own submission that year, in which he’d made the horse’s head too small. Munnings may be better known to some for being portrayed in the 2013 film Summer
in February, which focuses mostly on his sex life and an infamous love triangle and hardly at all on the
less fashionable subject of equine portraiture. His reputation in later life suffered because he broadcast his contempt for Modernist art, reportedly agreeing to join Winston Churchill in kicking Picasso in the nuts if they happened to pass him in the street. Today he would no doubt have been banned from Twitter and cancelled.
Sergeant Murphy also went on to feature on Player’s Cigarette Cards and most famously in an eponymous 1938 Hollywood film. The film claimed
to be loosely based on his life but that is a generous use of ‘loosely’. The plot involves his being offered
for sale to the American army, being rejected as unsuitable and being bought by a private soldier, who then trains him, brings him to England and wins the Grand National. It was, though, true that Sergeant Murphy was the first American-owned winner of the race. Nowadays the film is mostly known because
the starring role was turned down by James Cagney and was then taken by a less famous actor who at
the time was a reservist in the American cavalry. That was Ronald Reagan, who later secured his role of a lifetime as the 40th President of the United States. The old horse himself had long been dead by then. He carried on racing after his Grand National win until in 1926 at the age of seventeen he fell in a race at Bogside in Scotland, broke his leg and was immediately destroyed.
Pathways: GP Advanced Tracking
Level 3 Certificate for a Detection Dog Handler Pathways: Drugs, Live Body, Victim Recovery etc.
Level 4 Certificate for a Detection Dog Handler Pathways: Explosive Detection, VS, Cargo etc.
All qualifications are accredited by HABC, an Awarding Organisation authorised by OFQUAL and recognised by the SIA.

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