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Use of drug detection dogs in correctional facilities

26 Jul 2011

One component of CSC’s drug interdiction strategy is the authors could locate only one report documenting rate of Detector Dog program. [...] Furthermore, the costs and The current review examines the use of drug dogs benefits of utilizing a drug dog in the attempt to detect drugs internationally, discusses their benefits and limitations and within prisons also remain unclear. [...] The paucity of supporting evidence for interdiction techniques, such as drug dogs, may be partly due to the lack of pre-test or What we found baseline data, as well as the complexity of interdiction initiatives that occur within correctional facilities. [...] Passive dogs are used on a collar with it difficult to isolate the effect of one intervention on the overall a handler to search inmates and visitors alike. [...] A What it means number of agencies around the world train drug-detecting dogs, with the most common pedigrees of dogs being Labrador Overall, this review highlighted the lack of empirically-based Retrievers, German Shepherds, Golden Retrievers, and German information about the effectiveness of drug detection dogs within Short Hair Pointers (US Department of Justice, 2000).
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