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Are police allowed to (or more importantly, do they typically) search you if a drug sniffer dog acts like it smells something suspicious, in a situation where you otherwise were not previously suspected of carrying drugs and which the police officer was not previously looking for any?

I'm not totally sure about the "allowed" part, but yes, they will search a person, vehicle etc if their drug-dog just happens to alert, if they want to. Someone I know got busted like that. [[User:Lachatdelarue|Lachatdelarue (talk)]] 14:08, 5 Dec 2004 (UTC)fhFjsgfhJdgs

Depends on where you are, but in the United States, YES. They are allowed per the US Supreme Court in Illinios v. Caballes. [1] —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.190.38.84 (talk) 20:06, 22 November 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] Disputed

It says that on 9/11/01 the TSA only had a certain amount of dogs. How can this be since the TSA did not exist on 9/11/01 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.190.38.84 (talk) 20:00, 22 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Rescue dogs and Arabs

Is it true that rescue dogs walking on house ruins are frowned upon in Arab (or Islamic) countries because they think of dogs as an unholy beast? Or something like that. --Error 00:34, 31 Jan 2005 (UTC)

  • Response: I don't know where you got that, but K9 dogs ARE USED in many places, for instance Saudi Arabia (that is the most Islamic and most Arab country in the world). Specifically in sensitive places such as Dhahran and oil plants (there are permanent K9's in front of gates searching for possible bombs in entering cars). However, other places may not use dogs not because they think they are "unholy beasts," but because they 1- can not afford it (or don't want to) and 2- they don't even have decent rescue teams, who's supposed to operate such dogs? Eagle 17:15, Feb 28, 2005 (UTC)
  • Response: Dogs are indeed used, but have a negative symbolism in certain contexts. One of the many ways Western soldiers have ruffled feathers in Iraq has been to search houses with the help of dogs; to take a dog into someone's house is tantamount to urinating on their floor. --Vorpalbla 6/5/05

[edit] External links

OK, there are 2 external links now removed:

  • Articles, case law, and other information, which has been there for a while, seems to have useful and informative articles on the business of police dogs, but is indeed the site for a consulting business specializing in police dogs
  • History of Police Dogs and Military Dogs, which appears to document only the bad ways in which police and military dogs have ever been used to abuse other people and is quite one-sided.

Can anyone drop me a line on whether the information on the site is even accurate? What I know about bloodhounds tells me that the article describing the use of blood-hounds to brutalize slaves, indians, soldiers etc is probably bull, but can anyone actually prove it so? Probably neither of those articles should be replaced in this article, but if anyone beyond the persons who own the aforementioned websites would like to offer and opinion, this would be the place to do it. Elf | Talk 02:12, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Actually, this Wikipedia article seems very one-sided at present; if there are any criticisms on the use of police dogs, it would be useful to include it. The second external article could be used as a reference if it contains factual material. ---Ransom (--208.25.0.2 19:16, 28 September 2006 (UTC))

The link to the Canadian association is listed as being about cadaver dogs, but I can't find any relevant information there - should it be removed? I tried to find some more info about this use, accuracy etc, but Wikipedia seems to be lacking in this regard. Couldn't find the publications by the referred researcher or anything. kzm 12:06, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

Ok, found a link to a publicly available paper and added it (sorry about the minor edits, can't check the ref format in the preview). kzm 12:21, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Dog training

Does anyone know if all police dogs receive the same training? Are bomb-sniffers and drug-sniffers the same dog?

There are lots of different activities for "police dogs" and they all require different training. Your basic police dog--intimidate, attack, hold, alert, whatever, is one type of training. Drug sniffing, explosive sniffing, 'cadaver' sniffing, search & rescue...all require different approaches and different smells and require that the dog's handler keep up a regimen of practice of all the smells in the range of their training (e.g., different types of drugs, different types of explosives...). It's possible that someone could train their dog to do all types, but it would be a lot of training work and a lot of ongoing practice and so most dogs are used for one thing, not multiple. In addition, one usually wants drug-sniffing or explosive-sniffing dogs who don't intimidate the general public and who have excellent noses--so beagles are often used--but for search and rescue you might want a bigger dog who's more interested in working with people, for example. I don't know what percentage are cross-trained, if any. Elf | Talk 8 July 2005 06:10 (UTC)
Is it true that they go for the nads?--D-Boy 19:05, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Bodyguard dog with sniffer?!?

The police dog entry includes this sentence "For some sniffer dogs in environments where it is perceived that a criminal may attempt to kill the dog to prevent detection, a bodyguard dog is assigned with the sniffer to intimidate and, if necessary, attack anyone who would attack the sniffer." This is intriguing but I have been unable to verify this use through an extensive net search. I called Sergeant Paul Dunnom of the St. Paul (MN) Police Department's K-9 Unit (named #1 department team in the U.S. in 1989-1991, 1995 and 1997--they know police dogs). Dunnom said he had never heard of deploying two dogs with one to search and one to protect the detection dog. I think this sentence should be cited, expanded or removed. It's a nice IDEA, but it doesn't seem to be used at all.

  • Response: I agree. I have spoken to several ex-Customs and Excise officers who have never heard of this idea either. It seems counter-intuitive; it's not as though a sniffer dog is likely to be away from its owner for any length of time. spetswalshe 01/12/2006

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  • There seemed to be consensus, so I went ahead and dropped the sentence.]

ManicParroT 03:44, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

  • I've come across this in a couple cases of fiction, but I've never heard of it used in the real world. For example, in Max Brooks' book World War Z, K9 teams were occasionally equipped with 3 dogs per handler, 1 being the mission dependant (for example, recon) which was usually a smaller dog, and 2 guard dogs. These guard dogs would protect the mission dependant from wild dogs, feral cats, etc. While this book was released a just a couple of months ago, I have certainly seen it before in other works of fiction. So perhaps this is where the idea stems from.

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the reason for confusion is probibly the fact they deploy two or more hounds to search for a missing person or fugitive because hounds completely lack any obediance, so if a hound doesn't want to fallow the trail anymore there is nothing the handiler can do but use the second one. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.157.222.10 (talk) 15:29, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Work to be done

This page needs some work. I think it would begood to devide the page based on nation or region (North America, EU, Australia, etc) as the application and laws vary a lot I think. Robert Brockway 21:44, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

Could we try to minimize the extent of regionalizing information? This article is, after all, about police dogs in general, not individual jurisdictions. If someone wants to write about individual jurisdictions they would be best of starting separate articles for those topics.
Peter Isotalo 14:26, 21 September 2007 (UTC)
Agree 100% with Peter - articles are much better without regional sections, and any particularly interesting information included in the main body of the text. Owain.davies 06:34, 22 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] 420 trained dogs - no citation

"For example, as of February 2007, the U.S. Transportation Security Administration currently uses 420 trained dogs to patrol 75 airports and 13 major transit systems."

420 seems like an unlikely number of drug dogs. No citation given on this. Looks like a subtle - and funny - joke but oughtn't stand.


70.58.207.86 (talk) 21:59, 31 March 2008 (UTC)