BLUE LINE TRACKING, LLC.

“COWLEY TRACKERS”

TRACKING TRAINING COURSE ANNOUNCEMENT

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Date: April 17, 18, 19, 2026

Location: Camp Horizon, United Methodist Center

30811 Horizon Drive, Arkansas City, KS 67005

(www.horizoncenter.org)

Time: 8:00 a.m. Friday, April 17th, through 2:00 p.m. Sunday, April 19th, 2026.

Tuition: $165.00 ($70.00 pre-register and the meal costs will be $95.00) payable to Blue Line Tracking, LLC.

Tuition includes

               Training and Meals.  (Breakfast, lunch, and dinner on Friday and Saturday,

           and breakfast and lunch on Sunday.)   Contact Camp Horizon direct for

           Accommodations. 620-442-5533.

           Tuition covers training and meals only, you must make your own reservations 

           with Camp Horizon or Motels in the Arkansas City area.

Course Sponsored by” Blue Line Tracking, LLC”.  (“Cowley Trackers”)

(bluelinetrackingllc.wixsite.com)

This tracking course is limited to the first twenty students who pre-register.

Online Registration and Fees: Students must pre-register by April 5, 2026, for this course with a $70.00 deposit. Pre-registered students failing to attend the course without a reasonable excuse will be assessed a $50.00 service fee. 

 Please Enroll online at: (2026 Tracking Training Course)

Please Note: The Pre-registration fee and tuition fee will be sent as a PayPal invoice link. The link will be sent to the given email address once the student registers online.

 This course is open to all Law Enforcement with tracking interests, regardless of previous experience or training, and will focus on training for beginning and novice student interests. Tracking students will be provided training at an appropriate level for their development and progress.

This will be a 26-hour course, beginning at 8:00 a.m. Friday April 17th, at Camp Horizon Methodist Church Camp, 30811 Horizon Drive, Arkansas City, Kansas.  Breakfast and class registration will be in the cafeteria, followed by lecture and a short power point presentation to provide a basic understanding of training mythology,

techniques, and procedures.

Students will be individually challenged with tracking concepts and techniques. Advanced students will be provided training objectives working with new and advanced students in simulated Law Enforcement scenarios.

The training is designed to provide knowledge and experience in the art of seeing and following human footprints. Tracking of humans in crime scenes uncover the chronological order of events that took place and can show what the person did throughout the entire crime scene. A trained tracker, properly working a crime scene, can identify many elements of evidence during the investigation. Such examples as entry and exit of the crime scene, number of suspects, confirm or deny credibility of witnesses, premeditation, Probable Cause facts of evidence of whether a crime was or was not committed, drastically limit search areas for the investigation, direction of travel of fleeing suspects and many other factors.

Please Note:

Students should be physically fit and equipped for field practice. Field practice will continue during any inclement weather. Students should be prepared with wet/dry, cold/hot weather gear. Students will need note-taking materials, small tape measure, tracking stick or a dowel stick 5/8 diameter 48 inches long with three rubber bands, gloves, flashlight, knee pads, and some fashion of backpack to carry equipment in.

Certification hours are available through this class for Law Enforcement. There will be Law Enforcement specific information given throughout the training and Law Enforcement specific scenarios presented during the 26-hour class.

Rooms available at Camp Horizon can be viewed on-line at (www.horizoncenter.org)

Contact Camp Horizon for accommodations. Utilize the area map for travel directions to Camp Horizon from the Arkansas City area.  Lodging is a very short distance from the dining hall and classroom facilities. The camp is a rural setting with limited telephone and Internet service. No alcoholic beverages are allowed on camp property. Only Law Enforcement Officers are allowed to carry firearms on Camp property.

Feel free to utilize any of the motels in the Arkansas City area for accommodations.

Quality Inn, 3232 North Summit, Arkansas City, 620-307-5842.

Super 8 Motel, 3228 N. Summit, Arkansas City, 620-442-8880. 7 Clans Casino Hotel 12875 N. Highway 77, Newkirk, Okla. Best Western Motel, 6100 Patterson Parkway, Arkansas City, Ks. 620-307-6767.

Questions regarding the course may be directed to Ron Cannon, Tracking Coordinator,

620-660-1888 (ronc@sktc.net). or Rusty Parks, Instructor, 620-660-0231 (rparks1989@hotmail.com).​​

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