Cadets of the training center of the Polotsk border detachment took the oath

For the fifth time, an unscheduled training center has been established at the Polotsk Border Guard Detachment. During the existence of the training center, more than 600 people have been trained.

This time, 115 young men drafted from the Vitebsk and Gomel regions studied the tactics of border service, the material part of small arms, tracking, drill training, general military regulations, and acquired skills in hand-to-hand combat and military reconnaissance.

On June 8, a ceremony of taking the Military Oath by the cadets of the training center took place at the administration of the Polotsk Border Guard Detachment. The young men took the oath of allegiance to the Motherland for the first time. After the first part of taking the Military Oath, demonstration performances by hand-to-hand combat fighters were held, techniques of using service weapons were shown, elements of detaining a border violator and searching a car to detect items prohibited for transportation across the State Border using a service dog were demonstrated. The event concluded with a concert performed by the orchestra of the Polotsk Border Guard Detachment.

The ceremonies on the occasion of taking the oath were attended by the Head of the Main Directorate for Ideological Work of the State Border Committee of the Republic of Belarus, Colonel Alexei Tikunov, Chairman of the Polotsk District Council of Deputies, Iosif Gribovich, representative of the Orthodox Church, Father Alexander, Chairman of the veteran organization of the Polotsk Border Guard Detachment, retired Colonel Vasily Trafimenko, and the mother of one of the servicemen.

After completing their training at the training center of the Polotsk Border Guard Detachment, the newly-made border guards will be sent for further service to units directly guarding the border, to the honor guard company, and to support units of the border service authorities.

Assistant Head of the Polotsk Border Guard Detachment
for Media Relations D.G. Glebko