Homegrown police dog bred for success

Wide deployment

Guobao, a 7-year-old Kunming dog at the police dog unit of the Kunming Public Security Bureau, is the official security search dog for the Yunnan city football league, or Dianchao.

Guobao has also participated in numerous explosives detection missions and has never made a mistake.

In fact, over the past three years, the Kunming Public Security Bureau has deployed Kunming dogs in over 1,320 explosives detection and security inspection tasks, achieving "zero errors and zero mistakes" in all critical tasks.

In addition, over the past five years, Kunming dogs from the bureau have been involved in more than 80 operations, including apprehending criminal suspects, searching for evidence, and locating missing persons, and have played a crucial role in more than 30 of these cases.

After 70 years of selective breeding and refinement, Kunming dogs have established a robust population. Their promotion and deployment as working dogs has been highly successful, said Li Bo, deputy director of the Kunming police dog base.

Each year, the Kunming police dog base breeds over 600 Kunming puppies, providing more than 500 qualified six-month-old Kunming dogs. Over 300 Kunming dogs are supplied to public security agencies and other departments across the country every year.

According to the Ministry of Public Security, Kunming dogs have been widely deployed in various fields such as public security, emergency management, and customs anti-smuggling operations. The breed has achieved remarkable success in specialized roles such as scent detection, tracking, evidence searching, counterterrorism, and emergency rescue.

Kunming dogs have also been introduced to over 10 countries and regions including Singapore, Vietnam, and Pakistan. They act as ambassadors for international police cooperation and demonstrate China's expanding expertise in the development of police dogs, according to the ministry.

Zheng Jiarui in Kunming contributed to this story.

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