Orange Persimmon Interactive Reporter Yang Li Wentu Correspondent Mi Xiao
In a few days, police dogs from 11 cities in the province will compete for the championship of this year's provincial police dog skills competition.
These days, the trainers from all over the world who came to Hangzhou to compete took the police dogs to show their magic skills around the stadium to find a place for training.
The two young players changed to a new track
This year, the provincial police dog skills competition mainly tests the two actual combat abilities of police dogs: body search and tracking.
Cui Zhen is an instructor of the special police brigade of the Hangzhou Metro Public Security Bureau, and he is responsible for training the Hangzhou team's body search subjects in the competition.
The two participating team members in Hangzhou are "Bayi" and "Xiaode", both Springer dogs. "Xiaode" is from the police dog base of the Criminal Investigation Detachment of the Hangzhou Municipal Public Security Bureau, and is more than 3 years old this year, and "Bayi" is from the special police brigade of the Metro Public Security Bureau, and is more than 1 year old this year.
"Bayi" is a police puppy distributed by the Provincial Public Security Department at the beginning of last year. Under the careful care of the trainer Zhang Sen, the little guy grew up.
It is understood that when the police dogs are allocated, the small police dogs waiting for the distribution are numbered, and whoever draws will "spend the money", and the lottery number is also a bit like a "lottery", all by luck.
When puppies are born, there are several in a litter, some puppies are naturally strong and grab more milk from their mothers, and some puppies can't grab them, so they will be a little smaller. However, even if a weak puppy is drawn, with the careful training and care of the trainer in the later stage, the size and personality will slowly change.
"Xiaode" and "Bayi", who participated in this competition, actually changed to a new track. They used to have their own job responsibilities, and "Xiaode" was responsible for physical evidence search, such as finding tools for committing crimes, and assisting in solving crimes. Before "Bayi" joined the company, the career direction was set: "search for explosions". Usually, "Bayi" also participates in patrols, and walks around with the police in the subway station, which is also very spirited.
Although the new track has been changed, for "Xiaode" and "Bayi", it can be regarded as easy to control and bypass.
The new track still needs to rely on their keen sense of smell. We know that dogs have 1 million times the sensitivity and resolution of smell than humans, and they can recognize more than 1,000 different smells.
When training their new skills, they bury gauze with the smell of rotting corpses in the ground, and sometimes mix it with the smell of rotting corpses of other animals, so that they can identify and find them one by one.
According to age, "Xiaode" is the senior brother of "Bayi", who is in the prime of life and is in the "golden period" of his career, while "Bayi" is a fledgling and still a "hairy guy", although the training time is less than 2 months, the performance of the two squad members is not bad.
Let the police dogs learn to think
Just as each era has a different way of educating children, the training mode is also changing for "new and new dogs" such as Xiao "Bayi".
The distribution of puppies is generally three or four months old, before the distribution, they received the initial "young training" in the provincial public security department police dog base, which is equivalent to finishing kindergarten, after arriving at the police dog base, they began to go to primary school, middle school, training for a period of time, after the assessment to be eligible to officially become a police dog, equivalent to graduating from middle school, to step into the society, and to participate in the provincial or national police dog skills competition, it is a bit like participating in the college entrance examination, around the "candidates" competition.
A good handler affects the future of a puppy and determines whether it can be a good police dog. Police dog handler is a job that requires passion, not only to love dogs, but also to endure loneliness and hardship.
("Bayi" grew up day by day under Zhang Sen's care)
"Let them learn to think for themselves, and work more hard to stimulate the potential of police dogs. Cui Zhen said that now, when they are training, they focus on improving the thinking ability of the police dog, so that it can understand how to get rewards faster. "For example, when I train it to sit down, I hold the food in my hand, let it arch my hand, and if it sits down, give it a reward, and it will slowly think about how to get the reward from its owner. ”
Cui Zhen said that in the past, the training mode was a bit simple and crude, although the dogs were also obedient, but they lacked independent self-examination. For example, he said, in the past, when a dog was trained to sit down, if the puppy didn't respond for a while, they would press the dog's back, but now, "we will wait for it, give it two minutes to think about it, wait for it to react on its own, give it a reward when it reacts, and slowly, it will react faster and faster." ”
Sometimes, it often takes a long time to train an action, which requires the trainer to be patient, "Today it is trained, tomorrow it is forgotten, the trainer cannot be in a hurry, but wait for it to figure it out." ”
In addition, self-confidence is also important for police dogs. A confident police dog, walking with the wind, glowing eyes, and an aura of his own.
How to cultivate the self-confidence of police dogs?
"Every time you tug of war, let it win. Cui Zhen jokingly said that they had not won since they came to the base with "Bayi". "In the beginning, we used a little bit of force, but slowly, gradually, it increased, and it became more and more powerful, and our self-confidence became stronger and stronger. ”
Of course, "Bayi" was also scared when he went out to take the subway for the first time. It wasn't until the trainer took it to "sit back and forth, so that it could feel the crowding in the carriage", and after sitting a few times, "Bayi" became angry again.
"Simba" with its own majesty
In the past few days, there are many police dogs training in some hidden green belts on the roadside in Jingshan Town, Yuhang District.
This is the team of other cities playing away from home in the pre-match training.
This year, the Quzhou team had 3 dogs participating in the competition: "Simba", "Max" and "Rocket", all of which were Malinois.
（“辛巴”举止间自带威严）
Simba is 7 years old and competes in the tracking event. It has a good historical record, has participated in the provincial police dog skills competition, last year in the national IGP3 competition (international working dog competition, the competition level is divided into 1, 2, 3 three levels, level 3 is the highest difficulty coefficient), in the obedience, tracking and defense three subjects of competition, won three national second.
(Simba at IGP3)
In terms of body shape, "Simba" is half a head taller than its comrades-in-arms, with straight ears and tight muscles, belonging to "it is practiced at a glance", and it has a kind of majesty in its demeanor, and even its cry has a "lion's roar", called "Simba", which is also worthy of its name.
(Under the sunset, Yin Huagang trained with "Simba")
Seven-year-old Simba has a white beard and scars on the joints of his two front legs, which are the result of long-term training. When training obedience, the trainer Yin Huagang made a gesture and a password, and it should immediately "brake" when it was running, stand and lie down, just like people have inertia when running, the dog will also rush forward due to inertia, but the "Simba" who has undergone strict training can do "let it run and immediately get up and run, and let it lie down immediately and stop its feet and lie down on the spot".
(Simba's old wound)
"Max" and "Rocket" participate in the corpse search competition. When I went to interview, "Max" happened to be training, it was 4 years old, black-faced, a bit like Bao Gong, the trainer Fang Xingxing first let it run on the grass for a while, and then, it was about to practice the afternoon homework: find goals, obey, etc.
(Hearing the praise, Max is even happier)
Because he practiced hard in the morning, the questions for "Max" in the afternoon were simpler, and after a while, "Max" found the gauze buried under the stone, "So fast!" Fang Xingxing played with the rope ball with it, boasting, and when he heard the praise, "Max" was even happier and more vigorous, and after a while, he "snatched" the ball in Fang Xingxing's hand......
(Max sells moe)
The 5-month-old "Famous Queen" is entourage
This time, the Quzhou team was accompanied by "leopards" and "pandas", who did not come to Hangzhou for tourism.
"Panda" is a Kunming dog, 5 months old, the fetal hair on the body has not yet faded, and the face is still a little baby fat. It is at a critical moment in preschool training, and its daily homework can't be stopped, so it also came on a business trip with the trainer Yin Huagang, and when the "senior brothers" trained, it obediently watched from the side.
"Panda" is a famous family, its ancestor is called "Si Ping", is a famous old meritorious dog, many Kunming dog players know its legendary story. The grandfather of "Panda" is called "Luo An", and he is also the mainstay of the Kunming Police Dog Base of the Ministry of Public Security.
(The ancestors of the "Panda" are meritorious dogs, data map)
Kunming dog is a real "domestic product", is a dog breed bred by the Kunming Police Dog Base of the Ministry of Public Security, there are three strains: black-backed, grass-yellow, wolf-green, "panda" belongs to the black-backed line.
"Leopard" ready to go
The "leopard" is a Malinoa dog, which is like a warrior on standby, ready to go on a mission at any moment.
Since February 2022, Leopard has played a role in more than 30 missions to search for lost persons, and has also pursued suspects and assisted in solving 5 cases.
Before the Chinese New Year this year, the "leopard" searched 26 kilometers and found the uncle who had been lost for a day and a night.
(The leopard has been declared a meritorious dog)
On January 30, Uncle Zeng of Huangtankou Village, Qujiang District, Quzhou, went missing. The surveillance footage shows that the old man walked in the direction of Tianji Longmen and then disappeared.
The rescue team and the police station searched for a day without any clues. At around 9 o'clock in the evening of the same day, after receiving the search task, Yin Huagang and his apprentice Huang Zhengjian set off with the "leopard".
The "leopard" quickly entered the state, and after searching for one kilometer, it was discovered, and the "leopard" chased after the "Tianji Dragon Gate".
"Tianji Dragon Gate" is one of the main scenic spots of Ziwei Mountain National Forest Park, which is part of the Xianxialing mountain system in southern Qunan, and the mountains are connected to each other and have a large search range.
Because the mountains span the two jurisdictions of Hunan Town and Dazhou Town, the summary and analysis of monitoring information will lag behind, "We adopt a police dog combined with monitoring relay tracking program," said Zheng Qi, head of the police dog management section of the criminal investigation detachment of the Quzhou Public Security Bureau.
At night, the mountain was filled with dense fog and rain, so the search lasted all night, and the "leopard" and rescuers braved the rain to track all the way to Hunan Town, Qujiang District, but because of the complicated situation at the intersection of the township, "the 'leopard' was very tired, so I had to encourage it to persevere." Yin Huagang said.
(I'm tired of searching, so I'll take a break)
The next morning, the surveillance footage of the house at the foot of the mountain showed that an elderly person had passed by the night before, indicating that the "leopard" had taken the correct route.
Then, everyone continued to climb over a mountain, to Dongcang Village, "let it rest for a while, and then continue to climb the mountain", "Leopard" continued to search for 3 kilometers to the top of the mountain, is a deserted ancient village, although the "Leopard" has been tired and out of breath, but it still insists on walking in the direction of a big camphor tree, Yin Hua just knew that the "Leopard" physical fitness has reached the limit, "in order to protect it" At this time, the reinforcements of the rescuers have also been assembled, everyone continued to search in the direction indicated by the leopard, and finally found Uncle Zeng who had been lost for 24 hours 100 meters away from the camphor tree, fortunately, the uncle's vital signs were normal.
In the past two years, the "leopard" and its trainer Yin Huagang have become famous, and Jiangxi, Fujian, and other places have come to invite the "leopard" and Yin Huagang to come out when they encounter situations such as people getting lost and searching for suspects.
At the end of last year, a major criminal case occurred in Zhaishang Village, Meigang Township, Yugan County, Jiangxi Province. The local police investigation found that Zhou, a local villager, was suspected of committing a major crime.
"Leopard" and Yin Huagang were invited to search for Zhou, and took the "leopard" to chase for eight days and nights, providing 3 escape directions and eliminating 8 suspicious clues, providing an important basis for the command to determine the key search area, and on January 10, the local police found Zhou dressed as a "homeless man".
Detects the smell of rotting corpses like a metal detector
"Corpse dogs are different from rescue dogs, rescue dogs are wide-area searches, while corpse dogs are search for specific areas. "According to reports, a well-trained corpse search dog can detect the smell of rotting corpses buried deep in the ground like a metal detector, and for it, a depth of four or five meters is not a problem.
It is understood that in recent years, the Zhejiang police have also adjusted the arrangement of police dog skill positions, which is also related to the needs of police work.
At present, most of the requests for help received by the police on a daily basis are looking for lost people, and the elderly with dementia account for the majority of the lost people. Many elderly people with dementia also have underlying diseases, and if they are lost for a long time, their lives will be in danger. When road monitoring cannot provide more information, allowing tracking dogs to participate in the search can help the rescue police accurately locate and quickly find the lost elderly.
In addition, when a traveler is lost in the mountains and forests, he is killed when he encounters the murderer's burial in the investigation of the backlog of homicides, or when he is looking for the remains of those killed in natural disasters, the corpse dogs that appear often live up to their trust. (Some photos and videos are provided by the interviewees)
Editor in charge: He Xin
Review: Wang Chenyu He Xin