Army employs war dogs (In the midst of human unemployment)

Posted by admin Armed Forces, Latest Politics Tuesday, October 25th, 2011

The Nigerian Army said it has employed war dogs to detect narcotics and explosives as well as locate dead and decomposing human tissues.
Speaking while declaring open the Nigerian Army Corps of Military Police training week in Abuja, the Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant-General Onyeabor Azubuike Ihejirika, also disclosed that the dogs would be trained for Low Intensity Conflict(LIC), and military operations to conduct search and undertake rescue operations, tracking, patrol and guards duties.

Ihejirika said “the NA war dogs would be employed in the detection of explosives and narcotics, urban search and rescue, tracking, patrol and guard duties and cadaver find which is locating dead and decomposing human tissues”.
The setting up of the dog centre according to the COAS, was to enable the army tackle the security challenges in the country.

Similarly, Ihejirika, has called for information sharing and cooperation among the various security agencies to effectively curb the incidences of armed robberies, kidnapping, suicide bombings and other deadly attacks on Nigerians in some parts of the country.

Ihejirika, said rather than engage in unnessary inter service rancour and rivalry, security agencies should cooperate with one another, share information and appreciate their individual roles which he said were inter-related and inter-dependent.
The army chief while commending the theme of the training week entitled “Enhancing inter-agency cooperation for effective enforcement of law and order”, expressed the hope that the training week would provide a veritable platform for participants to interact and exchange ideas on how to move the corps forward as well as tackle certain acts of indiscipline which had become a major problem amongst some personnel in the army.
He also expressed the hope that renewed call for inter agency cooperation and new policing strategies would be developed to effectively and jointly combat crime and terrorism in the country.

The army chief while noting that the sucess of the Nigerian Army in meeting its constitutional responsibilty of protecting the nation from external and internal aggersssion requires inter-agency cooperation said “the incidences of armed robberies, kidnapping, suicide bombings and other deadly attacks on Nigerians in some parts of the country call for information sharing and cooperation among the security agencies”.
“We must cooperate with one another, share information, appreciate our individual roles that are inter related and inter dependent and also avoid rancour or rivalry”. He said.

The COAS, who said the authority would continue to support the Military Police within the limits of available resources, commended the progress made so far by the corps especially in the area of criminal/special investigation, crime investigation, crime investigation/control, internal security operations amongst others, however charged them to fashion out ways to curtail indiscipline, illegal activities and other vices within the Nigerian army and rid the barracks of all undisireable elements.

He charged the military police personnel to place more emphasis on proctive policing, rather than reactive policing through regular patrols, management of information and regular training.
He announced that the Military Police dog section had been designated to a dog platoon in readiness to the setting up of the Nigerian Army Dog Centre at Iyana-Ipaja, Lagos, where the army would be training war dogs for Low Intensity Conflict(LIC), and military operations.
Earlier in his address, the Provost Marshall of the Nigerian Army, Major-General Yusuf Dangiwa Pyeng, said the dog section now known as the Army Head Quarters Pro Coy Dog Platoon, had their trainers and handlers trained in the United States.

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