Recently, Border Guard Intermediate School 24 sent students of the 10th Intermediate Course of training trainers and drug detection and search and rescue dogs to practice at border posts under the Border Guard Command of Dien Bien province. This is also the first course of the school to practice search and rescue in the border area. In particular, the practice team at Muong Pon Border Guard Station consists of 10 comrades (1 instructor, 1 team leader, 1 veterinarian, 7 students) and 7 service dogs.

According to Major Nguyen Van Nghia, Head of the Search and Rescue Department, Border Guard Intermediate School 24, and also the instructor of the internship team, immediately after safely arriving at the unit, Muong Pon Border Guard Station created all conditions for the team to quickly stabilize accommodation for people and service dogs and implement the internship plan.

During the internship, the team focused on organizing and maintaining training on the contents and situations of search and rescue in landslides, rockfalls, and collapsed structures occurring in the border areas under the management of Muong Pon Border Guard Station. After 3 months of internship, the trainees had a firm grasp of the contents and requirements. In addition, the team also sent trainees and service dogs to coordinate with officers and soldiers of Muong Pon Border Guard Station to participate in patrolling the border and national border markers, protecting border security and sovereignty, helping local people develop the economy, and preventing and fighting forest fires...

The People's Army Electronic Newspaper would like to introduce some images of a search and rescue training session of the internship team at Muong Pon Border Post:

According to the hypothetical situation, a serious landslide had just occurred in Pa Cha village, Muong Pon commune, Dien Bien district, Dien Bien province, collapsing 3 houses and trapping 2 people in the rubble. Immediately after receiving the information, the station commander assigned the training team to send forces and sniffer dogs to the scene to organize search and rescue work. In the photo: Lieutenant Colonel Nguyen Dinh Thuan, Head of Muong Pon Border Guard Station assigns the training team.
The training team quickly mobilized to the scene.
According to the hypothetical situation, the landslide area is located about 5km from Muong Pon Border Post. Due to the complex terrain, the training content includes long-distance marching to increase the endurance of the trainees as well as the service dogs.
Immediately after arriving at the scene, the team leader gathered the trainees to brief them on the requirements and tasks and assigned positions for the trainees and the service dogs to conduct search and rescue operations. A few days before, the team had sent people to arrange some shirts and pants in the training area for the service dogs to sniff out.
Students bring sniffer dogs into landslide area.
In just a moment, the police dog discovered the location of the buried human scent source, continuously scratching the ground to signal.
Students use flags to report to the commander, then flag to mark the location of the human breath source for rescue forces to dig.
Another sniffer dog also discovered the location of the remaining buried human scent source.

Break time for trainees and “special assistants”. To improve the quality of search and rescue training during the exercise, teachers and team leaders frequently change the simulated incident area as well as different incident scenarios.

At the end of each training session, the team checks the health and feeds the service dogs according to prescribed standards.

KHANH HIEU (performed)