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Duff started a successful Law Enforcement Career in 1972 after being recruited from the Central Intelligence Agency to the Washington D.C. Police dept., then to the Georgetown University Police Dept. , the Falls Church, Va. Police Dept. and finally retired in 1992 from the Wexford Co. Sheriff Dept.in Northern Michigan.
In 1982 he became a certified Police K-9 handler and six months later became a certified Handler/Trainer and opened his new Dog Obedience Training School. He is a graduate and certified Handler/Trainer from; Rudy Drexler's School for Dogs in Elkhart Indiana. This school was founded in 1964 and is known worldwide for providing affectionate and trustworthy working dogs, using proven humane training methods and development of a handler training curriculum that is unmatched in its thoroughness and success. Rudy Drexler's School for Dogs, Inc. maintains affiliates in Canada, Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands.
Duff Lueder's certification as a Handler/Trainer include such areas as K-9 Obedience, Man-tracking, Narcotics Detection, Building Search, Article Search, Crowd Control and Explosives Detection. From 1985-1988 he was one of only 7 Bomb Dog Handlers in the State of Michigan.
In addition to K-9 Handling, his Public Relations Officer Duties and his Dog Training School, he also became one of the first 62 D.A.R.E. Officers in the State of Michigan. D.A.R.E. (which stands for Drug Abuse Resistance Education), is a program wherein police officers are specially trained to teach 5th and 6th graders a 17 week course on resisting the pressures to take drugs.
Duff also designed, taught and implemented one of the first Drug Education Programs for the Workplace following the enactment of the Drug Free Workplace Act, in the State of Michigan. This included not only lectures and on site employee drug education, but incorporated (with the support of Management and Employee representatives), the on site private use of trained drug dogs in areas open to the public as well.
Since he retired from Law Enforcement in 1992, he has earned his Bachelor of Arts Degree in Social Sciences and additionally his Master of Science Degree in Animal Science and has continued to train and develop KNINEPAL's Training and Behavior Modification Program for dogs and their owners as it is taught today. He is also an AKC approved evaluator for the "CANINE GOOD CITIZEN" Program(CGC).
In 2004, Duff finished co-authoring a new book called; "Dusty Here", Understanding a Dogs Point of View! In August of 2005 finished his second book called; Canine Reflections/Memoirs of a Police K-9 Handler, and in September 2007, co-authored his third book with his wife Jane entitled; Your Personal Guide to Dog Whispering & Helping Dogs with People Problems. He also writes a monthly column for the Belton/Honea Path News Chronicle in South Carolina.
In March of 2007 Duff was recognized by Criminal Justice On-line as one of 756 Police officer writers in the U.S. since the 1880’s and is the only one that has written books on dogs.

Duff started a successful Law Enforcement Career in 1972 after being recruited from the Central Intelligence Agency to the Washington D.C. Police dept., then to the Georgetown University Police Dept. , the Falls Church, Va. Police Dept. and finally retired in 1992 from the Wexford Co. Sheriff Dept.in Northern Michigan. In 1982 he became a certified Police K-9 handler and six months later became ... More