Swimming and diving are mandatory and regular training courses for Mobile Police to have physical strength, mobility, combat ability, and crime fighting on all types of terrain.
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| For over 2 months now, the Mobile Police have been training to swim on the Perfume River, in front of the Kim Long Ward People's Committee (Hue City). From early morning, the soldiers have to go to the assembly point, warm up, and then soak in the cold water. |
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| On shore, instructors continuously monitored the soldiers' training. This was a training session to demonstrate the storm response drill organized by the Mobile Police Command (Ministry of Public Security) in coordination with Thua Thien - Hue province on September 18. |
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| Mobile police practice front crawl swimming. This is the fastest swimming style, highly applicable in actual combat as well as in search and rescue, overcoming the consequences of natural disasters. The advantage of front crawl swimming is that part of the body is above the water surface, on the one hand limiting the resistance of the water, on the other hand helping the muscles to be less tense so the speed of gliding is fast. However, this swimming style is difficult to observe the target, creates loud noise, is easily detected as well as difficult to carry objects and military equipment. |
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| Sidestroke technique with the left arm stopping at one movement. Still swinging alternately like crawl swimming, but this swimming technique helps the arm to be raised above the water surface to carry weapons and documents for combat. This swimming technique is easy to observe but the speed is slow, consuming a lot of physical strength due to the need to maintain balance... |
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| Mobile police officers in breaststroke swimming exercises. In addition to swimming with correct technique, they also have to practice swimming horizontally and vertically. |
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| Armed swimming formation. This is a breaststroke technique applied, in which the police use their belongings and weapons as packages like gun racks, one hand holds the package, the other hand holds the gun, moving entirely by the pedaling force of their legs. The advantage of armed swimming is high combat mobility, the ability to carry strong firepower and can deploy combat formations conveniently. In combat, armed swimming is applied when encircling and capturing targets on rivers, at sea, when approaching enemy ships and boats or when crossing rivers, attacking and capturing targets. |
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| Mobile police officers are trained to pull packages by using a rope tied to their belts to pull large packages wrapped in plastic bags that can float or sink in water depending on the specific situation. |
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| Swimming exercises to save drowning people are also practiced by mobile police officers to perform disaster prevention and search and rescue tasks. |
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| Backstroke training - one of the secret swimming techniques, applied in combat when needing to approach a target with strict protection from the enemy to avoid detection. This is also a content of guard swimming, used to observe behind when the marching formation approaches the target, promptly detect enemy attacks to have timely response measures. |
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| The drowning rescue scenario is set for both swimmers and non-swimmers. According to the curriculum, if the drowning person is still struggling, the soldier must use words to calm the drowning person, inform them about the rescue method so that they can calm down and cooperate. If the drowning person has temporarily fainted or has completely submerged, they must be quickly approached, brought to the surface of the water and pulled to shore to perform other rescue actions. |
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| All swimming techniques are closely monitored by the leaders of the Mobile Police Command, correcting every small mistake before performing. The team of more than 200 swimmers belongs to the South Central and Central Mobile Police Regiments and Battalion 3 - Mobile Police Command. |
According to Vnexpress
