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).