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I had to produce a legal affidavit of our qualifications, which was kept on file at the county clerk’s office for the superior court
judges to refer to if necessary. I also included it in some of my police reports for the prosecutors (and defense attorneys) so they
knew exactly who they were dealing with. It looked like this:

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MARCH 2016 AFFIDAVIT: POULSBO POLICE OFFICER NICK HOKE & K9 “KILO”:
My name is Nick Hoke, I am the Poulsbo Police Department’s Narcotic Detection K9 handler. I received a police commission from the Washington State
Criminal Justice Training Center’s Police Academy class 403 in 1993 and I have been employed as a full-time law enforcement officer with the Poulsbo
Police Department continuously since then. In addition to working as a patrol officer I have had a variety of specialty assignments and duties and I have
attended numerous classes, courses, seminars, and conferences over the past 23+ years that have included trainings in the identification and recognition
of various narcotics to include marijuana, methamphetamine, heroin, cocaine, prescription drugs and other illicit street drugs, contraband, and
paraphernalia. I am very familiar with the various physical appearances and typical odors associated with these drugs and how they are commonly
packaged for personal use and possession, distribution, concealment, transport, and sale.

In August 2014 I graduated from a two-week 80 hour Drug Detection K9 Handler Course in New Smyrna Beach Florida at the Southern Coast K9
Training Center, working with my K9 partner “Kilo”, a German Shepherd/Belgian Malinois imported from Germany. Kilo and I received there our first
certification in Drug Detection, issued by the United States Police Canine Association. In October 2014, Kilo and I received our Washington State
certification from the Pacific Northwest Police Detection Dog Association after meeting the training, testing, and certification requirements set forth by
the Washington State Criminal Justice Training Commission and Washington Administrative Code for Narcotics Detection Dogs and Handlers, as
described in WAC 139-05-915 (3b): Narcotics Dog Handler. In May of 2015 we successfully passed our WA state certification test again, at a weeklong
PNWPDDA training conference in Boise, Idaho.

Kilo is trained to detect and passively alert to the following controlled substance odors: Methamphetamine, Cocaine, and Heroin, Crack Cocaine and
MDMA/Ecstasy. Kilo does not alert to any odors associated with marijuana or marijuana products, and he does not alert to uncirculated US currency.
Kilo has never been trained to detect or alert to any marijuana or marijuana products; as a matter of routine he ignores marijuana and he has even
demonstrated the ability to find illegal narcotics hidden in a cannabis store that had over a quarter million dollars’ worth of marijuana in the building,
with no alerts to any of the marijuana present.

When Kilo is given the command to sniff for the narcotic odors that he is trained to detect, if and when he detects those specific odor(s) he will exhibit
specific changes of behavior and pinpoint the source of the odor as close as he can. His trained final passive response is a sit and stare. I am trained and
experienced in recognizing his behaviors and definitive alerts to those illegal narcotic odors that he is trained to recognize and alert to.

I train with Kilo regularly using training aids that are state-lab confirmed narcotics; we average 20 hours a month. We have trained with K9 units and K9
instructors from numerous municipal, county, tribal, state, and federal agencies and departments and we average about 30 in-field applications and call
outs per year. Kilo has extensive experience sniffing for illegal narcotic odors in cars, trucks, busses, motorcycles, buildings, barns, sheds, boats, ships,
and fields. Our training sessions routinely include the following techniques:
- Exposure to (and “proofing off of”) a large variety of masking agents and distracting odors of all kinds, including marijuana and uncirculated US
currency
- Searching “blank” areas (buildings/rooms/vehicles) that have no illegal drugs hidden in them

- Searching areas “blind” in which neither the dog nor myself know where the narcotics have been hidden
- Searching blank areas “blind” in which no actual training aids (drugs) have been hidden by assisting officers

Kilo’s track record of consistently, accurately, and reliably detecting and alerting to illegal narcotic odors is well documented. Our training logs and field
performance records are maintained, current to date, and on file.
I, Nick Hoke, declare under the penalty of perjury of the laws of the State of Washington the above statement is true and correct.

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POULSBO POLICE OFFICER NICK HOKE #K610 DATE PLACE
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