Ron Mistafa was a 16 year member of the City of Calgary Police Service.

Over ten years was spent in the police service dog unit and served with distinction. Ron Mistafa has been training dogs for over 20 years.

He began his career of dog training with Schutzhund and after a short time in the sport took part in the 1985 Canadian Nationals. That same year he was accepted into the Calgary K-9 Unit and began his 14 week training course with PSD Charly and was trained by Brian Amm.

Ron trained several dogs and helped with the training of many other dogs during that time. The 1988 Winter Olympics came by and that duration was a very good learning time for him. Not only did he learn of the many aspects of security for such events, but he was also trained a year before the Olympics with an explosives detection dog. The dog he had then was EDD ARCO.

Explosive Detection became a forte of his and has kept up with it ever since. Ron went on after the Olympics to become the units head trainer for many years.

He participated in many courses through out North America and trained handlers from other jurisdictions across Canada and helped to set a standard for Calgary at that time.

In '95/'96 Ron decided to leave the department to strike out on his own and as a result is now heavily involved with training dogs in Bosnia for landmine clearance.