Early morning at the Nanjiang Police Dog Base.
The base handlers usually started work at 8 AM, but they would arrive half an hour early.
Every Monday, they had a routine meeting chaired by Tang Changhong to arrange the work and training plans for the week.
Tang Changhong said, "The main thing is the spring grand skills competition. Each team should first do an internal selection to see who's in top form. Report your choices, and we'll arrange an assessment and test later to pick the best of the best to participate."
Just as police officers had their annual skills competitions, police dogs also had to participate in a grand competition hosted by the provincial department.
The Nanjiang Police Dog Base had nearly thirty handlers, who were internally divided into six teams: public security, narcotics detection, explosives detection, bloodstain search, hard-surface tracking, and mountain tracking.
These represented the six main disciplines of police dog training.
