San Marino, training weekend for rescue dogs
The appointment is organized by the Volunteer Association “Rescue Dog Unit of the Republic of San Marino”
Actuality
Republic of San Marino
| 11:43 – 21 October 2021
The first of four weekends of the Course for Research Dogs on Human Remains and Blood Traces will be held in Faetano on Saturday and Sunday. The appointment is organized byVoluntary association “Rescue Dog Unit of the Republic of San Marino” with the aim of training and training the dog units.
Tutors of the course are the teachers of Detection Dogs Ticino, a Swiss association that has come to the fore for carrying out research in Novellara, Piedmont and Bolzano.
They will be present at the Canine Unit course from all parts of Italy, due to the peculiarity of the materials used during the training days, in fact synthetic materials will not be used.
Surface and rubble search dogs are trained to search for the scent of a living or recently deceased person.
When faced with deceased people, the rescue dog is unable to identify the corpse as its formation is based on the search for the “live” human smell, while the decomposition of the body totally modifies the smell.
The use of dogs can be effective even temporally very distant from the events that led to the disappearance of the subject, and they will be able to find human remains buried as a result of a crime, human remains buried as a result of natural disasters, human remains hidden on the surface, bodies submerged in inland waters (rivers, lakes).
They are also forensically trained to locate blood and can help other more recognized techniques in finding biological evidence at a crime scene.