Final round of the 4th Professional Dog Competition opens

Lieutenant General Pham Quoc Cuong, Commander of the Mobile Police and Senior Colonel Nguyen Trong Chi, Vice Commander of the Mobile Police present certificates to participating teams.

After the preliminary rounds in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City, 60 trainers and 60 outstanding professional dogs of 33 police units have been selected for the finale. The trainers will direct their dogs to perform various professional skills, such as basic movements, drug and explosive detection, searching and attacking subjects with weapons on tall buildings, and tacking human odors.

Participating trainers and their “partners” compete from June 4 to 6.

Speaking at the event, Senior Colonel Nguyen Trong Chi, Vice Commander of the Mobile Police, Head of the Organizing Board of the Competition, stressed that the competition was to assess and review police units’ management, training and use of trained animals in professional activities, as well as abilities to train and instruct animals to perform professional skills of trainers. This year’s competition was participated in enthusiastically by all police units specializing in training and using trained animals.