Nomination "Our Brothers": dog handler Anastasia Dresvyankina and her four-legged partner chased a suspect in a serious crime all night.
The story of how a police dog handler of the mobile platoon No. 1 of the separate battalion of the PPS, together with a Belgian shepherd dog named Marta, detained a particularly dangerous criminal, was told by Michurinskaya Pravda journalists. 26-year-old Anastasia and her dog Marta can rightfully be considered a very successful tandem that literally saved lives.
In the Pervomaisky district of Michurinsk, law enforcement officers were hot on the trail looking for a suspect in causing bodily injury to a man with a knife. The attacker fled the scene of the crime and Anastasia Dresvyankina, a dog handler, was alerted to assist the investigation.
A dog handler went in search of the suspect at night. The weather complicated the situation – it was constantly raining. But the young police officers were not confused by this. Anastasia and Marta traveled about 7 kilometers on a scent trail and found a man who was hiding from justice.
The attacker was armed with a grenade, but this did not bother the brave girl and her four-legged partner. Anastasia, without a second's hesitation, gave the command to the service dog, which neutralized the attacker in a split second. Thanks to the lightning-fast decision-making by the dog handler and Marta's excellent work, the detainee did not have time to use ammunition.
Marta came to Anastasia three and a half years ago. Then Nastya was a novice dog handler, and Marta was left without a master. The former owner did not find the right contact with the Belgian Shepherd, as a result, the one-year-old dog returned to the Cynological Service Center in Tambov. The acquaintance with the new owner began with the fact that Marta bit her new partner. But that didn't stop the budding friendship.
Marta belongs to a subspecies of the Belgian Shepherd Malinois. They are quite active, sometimes even too active, dogs. And their energy needs to be channeled in the right direction. And so, long hard training has borne fruit.
"Marta and I are currently working on two profiles – the search for living people and human remains. I see tremendous results from her. We try to help as much as we can. After all, the most difficult profile in our service is precisely the search, here you need to apply the right skills, find a person and act on the situation. We found a lot of lost things with her, and thefts were solved, and break-ins into residential premises," Anastasia Dresvankina says.
One of the most striking examples of Marta and Anastasia's recent work is the search for a woman who disappeared two and a half years ago near Morshansk. While walking the cows, local residents discovered a human skull and contacted the police. The search for the remains was entrusted to the Michurinsky dog handler and her faithful four-legged partner.
"While surveying an area of two kilometers, Marta picked up a trail. Investigators arrived at the place designated by the service dog and removed a layer of earth, under which they found human remains," Anastasia says.
A dog's sense of smell allows it to detect odors even at great depths. However, Marta has other qualities. Every time she visits a crime scene, she brings real help to the investigation. Finds traces. Helps law enforcement officers to solve thefts, robberies, rapes and other violations of the law. The unique quality of dogs like Marta is their great jumping ability. Thanks to their powerful paws, malinois are able to jump two and a half meters in height and two meters in length. In addition, Marta is highly intelligent.
"From the very beginning, she showed herself on the good side and her positive qualities only improved. Malinois are the kind of dogs that need to explain everything correctly once, and they will realize your incarnations. And my efforts with Marta were not in vain," Anastasia shares.
Marta lives with her mistress at home. Anastasia says it's the best it can be. After all, the tailed partner has long become, without exaggeration, a full member of the family.
Photos from the personal archive of Anastasia Dresvyankina and the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in the Tambov region.