04.03.2025.
Training handlers, working dogs to protect military property
A course lasting several weeks is underway at the Dog Training Centre in Niš, whose aim is to teach military working dogs and handlers how to protect and guard facilities and mobile assets of the Serbian Armed Forces.
The course is designed to prepare members of the Serbian Armed Forces for the role of dog handlers in units and to train dogs that have been bred at the Centre and selected as guard dogs based on their innate qualities.In accordance with the training program, the handlers use working dogs to carry out various exercises at the specialized training area within the Knjaz Mihailo Barracks, with the aim of building mutual trust and establishing absolute control and efficient dog handling during the execution of tasks. The main part of the course includes the practice of general dog handling skills, overcoming obstacles and doing exercises to improve dogs’ vigilance and response to various threats both in the daytime and at night.
Upon completion of training in mid-March, the military working dogs and their handlers will be assigned to SAF units, where they will be tasked with protecting military facilities and property.Guard duty training is only one of many types of training offered by the Dog Training Centre — a SAF unit specializing in training, health care, breeding and reproduction of military working dogs, as well as in training and career development of veterinary service personnel, and it helps provide greater security to the property used by the Serbian Armed Forces.
