A team of the Exceptional Situations Department (DSE) within the Ministry of Internal Affairs participated recently at a training course, held at the Training and Vocational Institute of the Ministry for Exceptional Situations of Belarus. The head of international and public relations department within DSE, Alexandru Oprea, noted that the team was composed of 10 officers, which got new knowledge, made an information exchange with their colleagues of Belarus. Thus, the officers of Moldova during theoretic lessons were trained how to manage the actions liquidating the consequences of exceptional situations, certain situations being simulated on the computer. In the same time, Alexandru Oprea said, the rescuers participated in practical lessons, organized on the training shooting range of the Institute, one of the biggest in Europe, where there were trained the proceedings and techniques of leading the forces for liquidating the consequences of exceptional situations. The shooting range has 42 training lands where are simulated some hundreds of different situations. The officers of the exceptional situation department within MAI were trained as leaders of rescuing activities, passing successfully the exams and tests. Cooperation in the field of rescuing activities is very important on regional and international levels, especially for possible exceptional situations with a regional impact, he mentioned. One of these kinds of activities took place on 28 March, when the exceptional situations department attended a joint training of similar operative services of Russian federation, Ukraine and Belarus. As scenery for the training was taken increase of water level on the rivers Prut and Dniestre, as result of intense melting of snows of the Carpathians, and partly flooding of certain localities placed along the river Dniestre. This training had the aim to check the information spreading among these operative services and the correctness of undertaken measures by the staff.