A trained dog from the National Police. Aurelio Ruiz Enebral AURELIO RUIZ ENEBRAL 02/21/23 | 1:00 Explosives and drugs Maximum operability The course was paralyzed The races that the Police are looking for A national police officer with a trained dog. A national police officer with a trained dog. Spain will assume on July 1 the semiannual rotating presidency of the Council of the European Union. The Government of Pedro Sánchez is already preparing for this responsibility, which will mean that some European summits of heads of state, heads of governments and ministers are held on Spanish territory, and not in Brussels. As already happened with the NATO Summit in June 2022 that was held in Madrid, although obviously at a lower level, these Encounters will require the deployment of important security devices, for example in the Alhambra in Granada, where a European Council will be held in October.
Riot police and escorts will protect the NATO summit in Madrid In this context, a public tender launched by the Economic and Technical Division of the General Directorate of the Police becomes more important, which has The purpose is “Acquisition of a minimum of 24 working dogs for canine guides”. The total budget is 72,454.80 euros, calculating that each dog can cost a little more than 3,000 euros. Explosives and drugs The incorporation of these dogs is necessary "to be able to meet the needs derived from the programming for the specialization course in Canine Guides in the National Police, the start of which is planned for the Phone Number List first half of 2023." The National Police explains that it currently has serving “a total of 486 dogs, distributed in twenty Special Units of Canine Guides, based in different localities of the national territory, dependent on the General Commissariat of Citizen Security of the General Directorate of the Police.”
Each dog is specialized in a work area: search for explosives, detection of weapons fire, search for drugs and banknotes legal tender, rescue and rescue, search and location of human remains, detection of fire accelerants, defense and accompaniment, and location of hidden people. "Operational efficiency in these work areas is directly related to the privileged sense of smell of dogs, in such a way that it is necessary to have dogs with characteristics and qualities that, logically, not all breeds or all breeds possess." individuals of these races,” indicates the Police. For this reason, “it is necessary, in this specific case, to carry out the acquisition of new dogs to assign them to the police officers who join the specialty by completing the corresponding XXVI Specialization Course in Canine Guide, a course that is intended to be carried out in the first semester of 2023 and whose areas of practical activity are specified in detection of explosives and narcotic.”